Nyctimantis

Nyctimantis
Nyctimantis bokermanni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Subfamily: Hylinae
Genus: Nyctimantis
Boulenger, 1882
Species

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Synonyms

Nyctimantis is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. These frogs live in southeastern Brazil and in the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. They live in trees. They hide in small pockets of water in plants that live on the branches and trunks of trees. The top of the frog's head has a bony plate on it. The bone plate is grown into the skin.

Species

Scientists say these frogs are in Nyctimantis:

Binomial Name and AuthorCommon Name
Nyctimantis arapapa (Pimenta, Napoli & Haddad, 2009)Bahia's broad-snout casque-headed tree frog
Nyctimantis bokermanni (Pombal, 1993)Bokermann's casque-headed frog
Nyctimantis brunoi (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920)Bruno's casque-headed frog
Nyctimantis galeata (Pombal, Menezes, Fontes, Nunes, Rocha, and Van Sluys, 2012)
Nyctimantis pomba (Assis, Santana, Silva, Quintela, and Feio, 2013)
Nyctimantis rugiceps (Boulenger, 1882)Brown-eyed treefrog
Nyctimantis siemersi (Mertens, 1937)Red-spotted Argentina frog

References

  1. 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Aparasphenodon Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
  2. ↑ Assis, C. L.; Santana, D. J.; da Silva, F. A.; Quintela, F. M.; Feio, R. N. (25 September 2013). "A new and possibly critically endangered species of casque-headed tree frog Aparasphenodon Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920 (Anura, Hylidae) from southeastern Brazil". Zootaxa. 3716 (4): 583–591. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3716.4.6. PMID 26106793.
  3. ↑ "Hylidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2017. Retrieved 2 May 2017.

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