Biology:Nannophryne

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Nannophryne
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Bufonidae
Genus: Nannophryne
Günther, 1870
Type species
Nannophryne variegata
Günther, 1870
Diversity
4 species (see text)

Nannophryne is a small genus of true toads, family Bufonidae,[1][2][3] from South America. They are found in central Andean Peru south to southern Chile and adjacent Argentina.[1]

Taxonomy

The genus was placed in synonymy with Bufo by George Albert Boulenger in 1894,[1] but it was resurrected in 2006 by Frost when splitting the then very large Bufo into smaller, monophyletic genera.[4] This change was controversial but has now largely been accepted.[2][3][5] The alternative, treating Nannophryne as a subgenus of Bufo, still has some following.[1]

Species

There are four species in this genus:[1][2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Nannophryne Günther, 1870". 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/Bufonidae/Nannophryne. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Bufonidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2015. http://www.amphibiaweb.org/lists/Bufonidae.shtml. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Bufonidae Gray, 1825". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=173471. 
  4. Frost, D. R.; Grant, T.; Faivovich, J. N.; Bain, R. H.; Haas, A.; Haddad, C. L. F. B.; De Sá, R. O.; Channing, A. et al. (2006). "The Amphibian Tree of Life". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–291. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL2.0.CO;2]. 
  5. Blackburn, D.C.; Wake, D.B. (2011). "Class Amphibia Gray, 1825. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness". Zootaxa 3148: 39–55. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.8. http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt03148p055.pdf. 

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