Gastrotheca

Gastrotheca
Gastrotheca cornuta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hemiphractidae
Genus: Gastrotheca
Fitzinger, 1843
Type species
Hyla marsupiata
Duméril and Bibron, 1841
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Notodelphys Lichtenstein and Weinland, 1854
  • Nototrema Günther, 1859 "1858"
  • Opisthodelphys Günther, 1859 "1858"
  • Amphignathodon Boulenger, 1882
  • Duellmania Dubois, 1987 "1986"
  • Eotheca Duellman, 2015
  • Cryptotheca Duellman, 2015
  • Australotheca Duellman, 2015
  • Edaphotheca Duellman, 2015

Gastrotheca is a group of frogs in the family Hemiphractidae. They are in Central America south of Costa Rica and in South America. Most of the frogs live in the American Cordillera, which are mountains that go from southern Costa Rica to northwestern Argentina. Most marsupial frogs are in this group. Scientists used to put them in in "Leptodactylidae."

People call them marsupial frogs are so-called because they have pouches, or bags, on their backs and they carry their young in the pouches. In some species of frogs, the eggs are fertilized on the female's lower back, and the male frogs puts them in her pouch with his feet. The female frog's blood tubes touch the eggs, which gives them oxygen.

Gastrotheca guentheri (Guenther's marsupial frog) is the only known frog with real teeth in its lower jaw. People keep Gastrotheca riobambae (Andean marsupial tree frog) as pet and use it in scientific experiments.

Scientists found and wrote about Gastrotheca gemma.

Species

Gastrotheca cornuta
Gastrotheca litonedis

There are 74 species recognized in the genus Gastrotheca:

The AmphibiaWeb is listing 69 species as Gastrotheca lojana is not included.

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Frost, Darrel R. (2018). "Gastrotheca Fitzinger, 1843". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Hemiphractidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  3. ↑ C. Michael Hogan (November 29, 2012). Ann T. Chang (ed.). "Gastrotheca trachyceps Duellman, 1987". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved September 6, 2026.
  4. ↑ Venegas, Pablo J.; García-Ayachi, Luis A.; Echevarría, Lourdes Y.; Paluh, Daniel J.; Chávez–Arribasplata, Juan C.; Marchelie, Axel; Catenazzi, Alessandro (2021-04-09). "A new species of marsupial frog (Anura; Gastrotheca) from the Cordillera de Colán in northeastern Peru". Vertebrate Zoology. 71: 201–218. doi:10.3897/vz.71.e60097. ISSN 2625-8498.

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