Cornufer

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Cornufer
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Ceratobatrachidae
Genus: Cornufer
Tschudi, 1838
Synonyms
  • Batrachylodes Boulenger, 1887
  • Ceratobatrachus Boulenger, 1884
  • Discodeles Boulenger, 1918
  • Palmatorappia Ahl, 1927

Cornufer is a genus of frogs in the family Ceratobatrachidae. Brown et al. (2015), a group of scientists, made it bigger: They placed most Australasian frogs in the family Ceratobatrachidae.[1] These frogs live in Melanesia and Polynesia — in Palau, Fiji, New Guinea, and in the Admiralty, Bismarck, and Solomon Islands.

Species[change | change source]

There are more than 50 species of frogs in this genus.

References[change | change source]

  1. 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.