Platymantis

Platymantis
Fiji tree frog (Platymantis vitiensis)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Ceratobatrachidae
Genus: Platymantis
Günther, 1858
Type species
Halophila vitiensis
Girard, 1853

Platymantis is a group of frogs in the family Ceratobatrachidae. In English, they are named wrinkled ground frogs, ground frogs, and forest frogs.

Most of the frogs in Platymantis live in the Philippines.

Platymantis is a large genus, and scientists disagree about which frogs should be in it.

Species

Right now, scientists say at least 30 living species are in this genus. Brown, et al. (2015) say there may be more, 50-60 species, because scientists have not written papers about all of them yet.

Platymantis also has one dead species in it:

Species moved to genus Cornufer

Brown et al. (2015) moved many species in Platymantis into a new genus, Cornufer. They kept all the frogs that living in the Philippines in Platymantis.

Where they live

Many Platymantis species live in only a few places.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Platymantis Günther, 1858". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  2. ↑ "Platymantis Günther, 1858". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  3. 1 2 Brown, Rafe M.; Siler, Cameron D.; Richards, Stephen J.; Diesmos, Arvin C.; Cannatella, David C. (2015). "Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for Southeast Asian and Melanesian forest frogs (family Ceratobatrachidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 174 (1): 130–168. doi:10.1111/zoj.12232.
  4. ↑ "Platymantis megabotoniviti; holotype (a) paratypes (b-h)". Collections Online. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2010.

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