Chiromantis

"Foam-nest frog" redirects here. For other frogs that make foam nests, see Bubble-nest frog.

Chiromantis
Chiromantis rufescens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Rhacophoridae
Genus: Chiromantis
Peters, 1854
Type species
Chiromantis xerampelina
Peters, 1854
Species

4 species (see text)

Chiromantis is a group of frogs. These frogs are in the scientific family Rhacophoridae. In English, these frogs are named foam-nest frogs or foam-nest tree frogs. These frogs live in Sub-Saharan African places that are near the middle of the planet Earth, where it is warmest. Following the molecular genetic study by Chen and colleagues (2020), the Asian species formerly assigned to Chiromantis have now been reclassified to the resurrected genus Chirixalus.

Description

Chiromantis lay their eggs in piles of foam on the ground.

Species

These species are in Chiromantis:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Frost, Darrel R. (2020). "Chiromantis Peters, 1854". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1. American Museum of Natural History. doi:10.5531/db.vz.0001. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 Chen, Jin-Min; Prendini, Elizabeth; Wu, Yun-He; Zhang, Bao-Lin; Suwannapoom, Chatmongkon; Chen, Hong-Man; Jin, Jie-Qiong; Lemmon, Emily Moriarty; Lemmon, Alan R.; Stuart, Bryan L.; Raxworthy, Christopher J.; Murphy, Robert W.; Yuan, Zhi-Yong & Che, Jing (April 2020). "An integrative phylogenomic approach illuminates the evolutionary history of Old World tree frogs (Anura: Rhacophoridae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 145 106724. Bibcode:2020MolPE.14506724C. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106724. PMID 31881327.

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