Biology:Craugastor

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Short description: Genus of amphibians

Craugastor
Craugastor longirostris.jpg
Craugastor longirostris
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Craugastoridae
Subfamily: Craugastorinae
Genus: Craugastor
Cope, 1862
Type species
Hylodes fitzingeri
Schmidt, 1857
Diversity
See text)
Synonyms
  • Microbatrachylus Taylor, 1940 "1939"
  • Hylactophryne Lynch, 1968
  • Campbellius Hedges, Duellman & Heinicke, 2008

Craugastor is a large genus of frogs in the family Craugastoridae[1][2][3] with 126 species.[3] Its scientific names means brittle-belly, from the Ancient Greek krauros (κραῦρος, brittle, dry) and gastēr (γαστήρ, belly, stomach).[4]

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Craugastor:[3]


References

  1. Hedges, S. B.; Duellman, W. E.; Heinicke, M. P. (2008). "New World direct-developing frogs (Anura: Terrarana): Molecular phylogeny, classification, biogeography, and conservation". Zootaxa (1737): 1–182. Archived from the original on 2010-06-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20100610104006/http://evo.bio.psu.edu/hedgeslab/Publications/PDF-files/196.pdf. 
  2. "Craugastoridae. in: AmphibiaWeb - Information on Amphibian Biology and Conservation". University of California, Berkeley, CA. http://www.amphibiaweb.org/lists/Craugastoridae.shtml. Retrieved 2010-07-13. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Craugastor Cope, 1862". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Craugastoridae/Craugastorinae/Craugastor. Retrieved 16 February 2015. 
  4. Dodd, C. Kenneth (2013). Frogs of the United States and Canada. 1. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-4214-0633-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=2Hwfz9P9gS0C&pg=PR20. 

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