Biology:Austrochaperina
| Austrochaperina | |
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| The rain frog Austrochaperina pluvialis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Microhylidae |
| Subfamily: | Asterophryinae |
| Genus: | Austrochaperina Fry, 1912 |
| Type species | |
| Austrochaperina robusta Fry, 1912
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Austrochaperina is a genus of microhylid frogs found on New Guinea, New Britain and Australia.[1]
Taxonomy
The genus was removed from the synonymy of Sphenophryne by Richard Zweifel in 2000. However, as currently defined, it might not be monophyletic, with two monophyletic units of Austrochaperina more closely related to parts of Copiula than with each other.[1]
Description
Austrochaperina are rather generalized frogs in their morphology and appear mostly to inhabit leaf litter. They reach maximum sizes between 20 and 50 mm (0.79 and 1.97 in) snout–vent length. Finger and toe tips are flattened and disc-like. Most species lack toe webbing.[2]
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus Austrochaperina:[1]
The AmphibiaWeb[3] includes a few additional species that Peloso and colleagues moved to Copiula in 2016.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Austrochaperina Fry, 1912". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/index.php//Amphibia/Anura/Microhylidae/Asterophryinae/Austrochaperina. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
- ↑ Zweifel, R. G. (2000). "Partition of the Australopapuan microhylid frog genus Sphenophryne with descriptions of new species". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 253: 1–130. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)253<0001:POTAMF>2.0.CO;2. http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/1600.
- ↑ "Microhylidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2016. http://www.amphibiaweb.org/lists/Microhylidae.shtml. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
- ↑ Peloso, Pedro L.V.; Frost, Darrel R.; Richards, Stephen J.; Rodrigues, Miguel T.; Donnellan, Stephen; Matsui, Masafumi; Raxworthy, Cristopher J.; Biju, S.D. et al. (2016). "The impact of anchored phylogenomics and taxon sampling on phylogenetic inference in narrow-mouthed frogs (Anura, Microhylidae)". Cladistics 32 (2): 113–140. doi:10.1111/cla.12118. PMID 34732021.
Wikidata ☰ Q2698628 entry
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