Biology:Arthroleptella
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Short description: Genus of amphibians
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| Arthroleptella lightfooti | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Pyxicephalidae |
| Subfamily: | Cacosterninae |
| Genus: | Arthroleptella Hewitt, 1926 |
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Arthroleptella is a genus of frogs known as moss frogs in the family Pyxicephalidae. The ten species of this genus are endemic to South Africa.
It contains the following species:[1]
- Arthroleptella atermina Turner and Channing, 2017 - Riviersonderent moss frog
- Arthroleptella bicolor Hewitt, 1926 – Bainskloof moss frog
- Arthroleptella draconella Turner and Channing, 2017 – Drakenstein moss frog
- Arthroleptella drewesii Channing, Hendricks and Dawood, 1994 – Drewes' moss frog
- Arthroleptella kogelbergensis Turner and Channing, 2017 – Kogelsberg moss frog
- Arthroleptella landdrosia Dawood and Channing, 2000 – Landdros moss frog
- Arthroleptella lightfooti (Boulenger, 1910) – Lightfoot's moss frog
- Arthroleptella rugosa Turner and Channing, 2008 – Rough moss frog
- Arthroleptella subvoce Turner, de Villiers, Dawood and Channing, 2004 – Northern moss frog
- Arthroleptella villiersi Hewitt, 1935 – De Villiers' moss frog
Two other species were formerly classified as Arthroleptella before recently found to belong to the formerly monotypic genus Anhydrophryne (Dawood and Stam 2006):[2][3]
- Arthroleptella hewitti → Anhydrophryne hewitti (FitzSimons, 1947) – Hewitt's moss frog
- Arthroleptella ngongoniensis → Anhydrophryne ngongoniensis (Bishop and Passmore, 1993) – Ngoni moss frog
References
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Arthroleptella Hewitt, 1926". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/?action=names&genus=Arthroleptella. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
- ↑ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2013). "Anhydrophryne hewitti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T58059A3064127. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T58059A3064127.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/58059/3064127. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ↑ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group.; South African Frog Re-assessment Group (2016). "Anhydrophryne ngongoniensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T58062A77157706. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T58062A77157706.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/58062/77157706. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
Wikidata ☰ Q735629 entry
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