Biology:Platyplectrum
Platyplectrum is a genus of ground-dwelling frog in the family Limnodynastidae. Species in this genus are found in Australia, New Guinea, and on the Aru Islands.[1] They are medium-sized frogs and the dorsal skin has a sandpaper-like texture.
Although this genus was described in 1863 for the species Platyplectrum ornatum, in 2009 it was synonymized with the genus Opisthodon. This classification was found to be paraphyletic with respect to the former genus Lechriodus. For this reason, Platyplectrum was revived in 2021 for the members of Opisthodon and Lechriodus.[1][2]
Species
| Common name | Binomial name |
|---|---|
| Morobe cannibal frog[3] | Platyplectrum aganoposis (Zweifel, 1972) |
| Fletcher's frog | Platyplectrum fletcheri (Boulenger, 1890) |
| Wokan cannibal frog | Platyplectrum melanopyga (Doria, 1875) |
| Ornate burrowing frog | Platyplectrum ornatus (Gray, 1842) |
| Arfak cannibal frog | Platyplectrum platyceps (Parker, 1940) |
| Spencer's burrowing frog | Platyplectrum spenceri (Parker, 1940) |
The fossil species †Platypectrum casca (Tyler & Godthelp, 1993) is known from the Early Eocene of the Tingamarra Fauna of Queensland. This is the earliest record of the family.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Platyplectrum Günther, 1863 | Amphibian Species of the World". https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Myobatrachoidea/Limnodynastidae/Platyplectrum.
- ↑ Dubois, Alain; Ohler, Annemarie; Pyron, R. Alexander (2021-02-26). "New concepts and methods for phylogenetic taxonomy and nomenclature in zoology, exemplified by a new ranked cladonomy of recent amphibians (Lissamphibia)" (in en). Megataxa 5 (1): 1–738–1–738. doi:10.11646/megataxa.5.1.1. ISSN 2703-3090. https://www.mapress.com/mt/article/view/megataxa.5.1.1.
- ↑ "Morobe Cannibal Frog (Lechriodus aganoposis)". https://www.herpmapper.org/taxon/lechriodus_aganoposis.
- ↑ Farman, Roy M.; Archer, Michael; Hand, Suzanne J. (2025). "Early Eocene pelodryadid from the Tingamarra Local Fauna, Murgon, southeastern Queensland, Australia, and a new fossil calibration for molecular phylogenies of frogs". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 0. doi:10.1080/02724634.2025.2477815. ISSN 0272-4634.
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