Sphaenorhynchus

Sphaenorhynchus
Sphaenorhynchus lacteus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Subfamily: Hylinae
Genus: Sphaenorhynchus
Tschudi, 1838
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Dryomelictes Fitzinger, 1843
  • Dryomelictes Cope, 1865
  • Hylopsis Werner, 1894
  • Sphoenohyla Lutz and Lutz, 1938

Sphaenorhynchus is a genus of frogs. They are in the family Hylidae. They are the lime treefrogs or hatchet-faced treefrogs. They live in the places where water goes into the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers in South America. They live in the Guianas, Trinidad, and Brazil. Most of them live in Brazil in the Atlantic Forest.

Systematics

Scientists think the frogs in Sphaenorhynchus are closely related to the frogs in Scarthyla and Scinax. Faivovich and other scientists (2005) put Sphaenorhynchus in the group Dendropsophini. Dendropsophus, Lysapsus, Pseudis, Scarthyla, Scinax, and Xenohyla are in Dendropsophini too.

Appearance

Sphaenorhynchus are small and middle frogs in size. They are bright green or yellow green in color. Their faces come together to a point. Most frogs have skin flaps on each side of the rear end. There is some webbed skin on the front feet and more webbed skin on the back feet. Male frogs have a vocal sac on their necks so they can make sounds.

Species

These species are in the genus Sphaenorhynchus:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Sphaenorhynchus Tschudi, 1838". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Hylidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2017. Retrieved 11 June 2017. (recently described Sphaenorhynchus cammaeus not yet included)
  3. ↑ Araujo-Vieira, K.; Lacerda, J. V. A.; Pezzuti, T. L.; Leite, F. S. F.; de Assis, C. L.; Cruz, C. A. G. (21 December 2015). "A new species of Hatchet-faced Treefrog Sphaenorhynchus Tschudi (Anura: Hylidae) from Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil". Zootaxa. 4059 (1): 96–114. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4059.1.5. hdl:11336/85191. PMID 26701555.
  4. ↑ Roberto, Igor Joventino; Araujo-Vieira, Katyuscia; de Carvalho-e-Silva, Sergio Potsch; Ávila, Robson Waldemar (June 2017). "A new species of Sphaenorhynchus (Anura: Hylidae) from northeastern Brazil". Herpetologica. 73 (2): 148–161. doi:10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-16-00021. S2CID 91143723.
  5. ↑ Faivovich, Julián; Haddad, Célio F.B.; Garcia, Paulo C.A.; Frost, Darrel R.; Campbell, Jonathan A.; Wheeler, Ward C. (2005). "Systematic review of the frog family Hylidae, with special reference to Hylinae: phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 294: 1–240. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.470.2967. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2005)294[0001:SROTFF]2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/462. S2CID 83925199. {{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |citeseerx= (help)
  6. ↑ Goin, Coleman J. (1957). "Status of the frog genus Sphoenohyla with a synopsis of the species". Caldasia. 8 (36): 11–31. Archived from the original on 2017-12-05. Retrieved 2022-06-19.