Biology:Uperodon
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Microhylidae |
| Subfamily: | Microhylinae |
| Genus: | Uperodon Duméril & Bibron, 1841 |
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12 species (see text) | |
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Uperodon is a genus of microhylid frogs.[1][2] They occur in South Asia (Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, and Bangladesh) and Myanmar.[1][2] Uperodon reached its current composition in 2016 when the genus Ramanella was brought into its synonymy.[3] The common names of these frogs are globular frogs and balloon frogs[1] in reference to their stout appearance,[4] or dot frogs, the last specifically referring to the former Ramanella.[1]
Uperodon includes burrowing frogs that eat ants and termites.[4][5]
Species
There are 12 recognized species:[1]
- Uperodon anamalaiensis (Rao, 1937)
- Uperodon globulosus (Günther, 1864)
- Uperodon montanus (Jerdon, 1853)
- Uperodon mormoratus (Rao, 1937)
- Uperodon nagaoi (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2001)
- Uperodon obscurus (Günther, 1864)
- Uperodon palmatus (Parker, 1934)
- Uperodon rohani Garg, Senevirathne, Wijayathilaka, Phuge, Deuti, Manamendra-Arachchi, Meegaskumbura, and Biju, 2018
- Uperodon systoma (Schneider, 1799)
- Uperodon taprobanicus (Parker, 1934)
- Uperodon triangularis (Günther, 1876)
- Uperodon variegatus (Stoliczka, 1872)
The AmphibiaWeb also lists Uperodon minor Rao, 1937,[2] which is considered synonym of Uperodon anamalaiensis by the Amphibian Species of the World.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Uperodon Duméril and Bibron, 1841". 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/Microhylidae/Microhylinae/Uperodon.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Microhylidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2019. http://www.amphibiaweb.org/lists/Microhylidae.shtml.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Boulenger, G. A. (1890). Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 495–497. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5490.
- ↑ Das, I. (1996). "Resource use and foraging tactics in a south Indian amphibian community". Journal of South Asian Natural History 2 (1): 1–30. http://www.wht.lk/zeylanica/volume-2-number-1/Das%20I.%20Resource%20use%20and%20foraging%20tactics%20in%20a%20south%20Indian%20amphibian.pdf.
Wikidata ☰ Q745035 entry
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