Nyctimantis

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Nyctimantis
Nyctimantis bokermanni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Subfamily: Hylinae
Genus: Nyctimantis
Boulenger, 1882
Species

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Synonyms

Nyctimantis is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. These frogs live in southeastern Brazil and in the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil.[1][2] They live in trees. They hide in small pockets of water in plants that live on the branches and trunks of trees. The top of the frog's head has a bony plate on it. The bone plate is grown into the skin.

Species[change | change source]

Scientists say these frogs are in Nyctimantis:[1][3]

Binomial Name and Author Common Name
Nyctimantis arapapa (Pimenta, Napoli & Haddad, 2009) Bahia's broad-snout casque-headed tree frog
Nyctimantis bokermanni (Pombal, 1993) Bokermann's casque-headed frog
Nyctimantis brunoi (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920) Bruno's casque-headed frog
Nyctimantis galeata (Pombal, Menezes, Fontes, Nunes, Rocha, and Van Sluys, 2012)
Nyctimantis pomba (Assis, Santana, Silva, Quintela, and Feio, 2013)
Nyctimantis rugiceps (Boulenger, 1882) Brown-eyed treefrog
Nyctimantis siemersi (Mertens, 1937) Red-spotted Argentina frog

References[change | change source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Aparasphenodon Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
  2. Assis, C. L.; Santana, D. J.; da Silva, F. A.; Quintela, F. M.; Feio, R. N. (25 September 2013). "A new and possibly critically endangered species of casque-headed tree frog Aparasphenodon Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920 (Anura, Hylidae) from southeastern Brazil". Zootaxa. 3716 (4): 583–591. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3716.4.6. PMID 26106793.
  3. "Hylidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2017. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
  • Trueb, L. (1970b): The evolutionary relationships of casque-headed treefrogs with co-ossified skulls (family Hylidae). - Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. 18, pp. [547-716]

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