Anomaloglossus

Anomaloglossus
Anomaloglossus beebei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Aromobatidae
Genus: Anomaloglossus
Grant [fr; es], Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad [fr], Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler [fr], 2006
Type species
Colostethus beebei
Noble, 1923
Species

30 species (see text)

Anomaloglossus is a group of frogs. It is a genus in the family Aromobatidae. These frogs live in the Guiana Shield in northern South America. Scientists used to be say these frogs were in the family Dendrobatidae), and some scientists think they should still be in that group. The name of the genus comes from the Greek words anomalos, which means "irregular" or "unusual," and glossa which means "tongue." They gave this group this name because of the unusual tongue that the frogs have.

Female Anomaloglossus parkerae

Bodies

Anomaloglossus frogs have color patterns that make them harder to see. Most of them are brown or gray. There is webbed skin on the back feet. The front feet have disks on the toes for climbing.

Anomaloglossus baeobatrachus

Species

These frog species are in the genus Anomaloglossus:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Grant, Taran; Frost, Darrel R.; Caldwell, Janalee P.; Gagliardo, Ron; Haddad, Célio F.B.; Kok, Philippe J.R.; Means, D. Bruce; Noonan, Brice P.; Schargel, Walter E. & Wheeler, Ward C. (2006). "Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 299: 1–262. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)299[1:PSODFA]2.0.CO;2.
  2. 1 2 3 Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Anomaloglossus Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  3. ↑ "Anomaloglossus Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  4. 1 2 3 Vacher, Jean-Pierre; Kok, Philippe J.R.; Rodrigues, Miguel T.; Lima, Jucivaldo Dias; Lorenzini, Andy; Martinez, Quentin; Fallet, Manon; Courtois, Elodie A.; Blanc, Michel; Gaucher, Philippe; Dewynter, Maël; Jairam, Rawien; Ouboter, Paul; Thébaud, Christophe & Fouquet, Antoine (2017). "Cryptic diversity in Amazonian frogs: Integrative taxonomy of the genus Anomaloglossus (Amphibia: Anura: Aromobatidae) reveals a unique case of diversification within the Guiana Shield". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 112: 158–173. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.04.017. PMID 28438699.
  5. ↑ Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Aromobatidae Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  6. ↑ "Dendrobatidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  7. ↑ Kok, Philippe J.R.; Nicolaï, Michaël P.J.; Lathrop, Amy & MacCulloch, Ross D. (2018). "Anomaloglossus meansi sp. n., a new Pantepui species of the Anomaloglossus beebei group (Anura, Aromobatidae)". ZooKeys (759): 99–116. doi:10.3897/zookeys.759.24742. PMC 5974005. PMID 29861648.