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Anomaloglossus

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Anomaloglossus
Anomaloglossus beebei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Aromobatidae
Subfamily: Anomaloglossinae
Genus: Anomaloglossus
Grant [fr; es], Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad [fr], Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler [fr], 2006[1]
Type species
Colostethus beebei
Noble, 1923
Species

30 species (see text)

Anomaloglossus is a genus of frogs in the family Aromobatidae.[2][3][4] The genus is endemic to the Guiana Shield in northern South America.[2][4] It used to be placed in the family Dendrobatidae (together with other genera in the current Aromobatidae[1][5]), and is still placed in that family by some sources.[6] The name of the genus, from the Greek anomalos (=irregular, unusual) and glossa (=tongue), refers to the unusual tongue bearing the median lingual process, the only unambiguous phenotypic synapomorphy of this genus.[1]

Female Anomaloglossus parkerae

Description

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Anomaloglossus are characterized by cryptic dorsal coloration (brown or gray). Dorsal skin is posteriorly granular. The toes are webbed, ranging from basal to extensive. The fingers have weakly expanded discs.[1] Many species show large intraspecific morphological variability and lack of morphological characters that would allow easy species identification.[4]

The tadpoles can be either exotrophic or endotrophic.[4]

Anomaloglossus baeobatrachus

Species

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The following 30 species are recognised in the genus Anomaloglossus:[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Grant, Taran; Frost, Darrel R.; Caldwell, Janalee P.; Gagliardo, Ron; Haddad, Célio F.B.; Kok, Philippe J.R.; Means, D. Bruce; Noonan, Brice P.; Schargel, Walter E. & Wheeler, Ward C. (2006). "Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 299: 1–262. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)299[1:PSODFA]2.0.CO;2.
  2. ^ a b c d Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Anomaloglossus Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Anomaloglossus Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  4. ^ a b c d Vacher, Jean-Pierre; Kok, Philippe J.R.; Rodrigues, Miguel T.; Lima, Jucivaldo Dias; Lorenzini, Andy; Martinez, Quentin; Fallet, Manon; Courtois, Elodie A.; Blanc, Michel; Gaucher, Philippe; Dewynter, Maël; Jairam, Rawien; Ouboter, Paul; Thébaud, Christophe & Fouquet, Antoine (2017). "Cryptic diversity in Amazonian frogs: Integrative taxonomy of the genus Anomaloglossus (Amphibia: Anura: Aromobatidae) reveals a unique case of diversification within the Guiana Shield". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 112: 158–173. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.04.017. PMID 28438699.
  5. ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Aromobatidae Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  6. ^ "Dendrobatidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  7. ^ Kok, Philippe J.R.; Nicolaï, Michaël P.J.; Lathrop, Amy & MacCulloch, Ross D. (2018). "Anomaloglossus meansi sp. n., a new Pantepui species of the Anomaloglossus beebei group (Anura, Aromobatidae)". ZooKeys (759): 99–116. doi:10.3897/zookeys.759.24742. PMC 5974005. PMID 29861648.