Crossodactylodes

Crossodactylodes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Leptodactylidae
Subfamily: Paratelmatobiinae
Genus: Crossodactylodes
Cochran, 1938
Type species
Crossodactylodes pintoi
Cochran, 1938
Species

5, see text.

Crossodactylodes or bromeliad frogs are a group of frogs that live in the Atlantic Forest in eastern Brazil.

Most Crossodactylodes live on or near bromeliad plants, sometimes for their whole lives. Most of these plants grow on other plants. However, Crossodactylodes itambe lives in rock bromeliads in open fields.

Species

There are five species:

References

  1. 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Crossodactylodes Cochran, 1938". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  2. ↑ Barata, IM; MTT Santos; FSF Leite; PCA Garcia (2013). "A new species of Crossodactylodes (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Minas Gerais, Brazil: first record of genus within the Espinhaço Mountain Range" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3731: 552–560. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3731.4.7. PMID 25277590.