Arthroleptella: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Amphibia
Order
Anura
Family
Pyxicephalidae
Genus
Arthroleptella
Species
Scientific Name
Arthroleptella

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Arthroleptella

Arthroleptella is a genus of frogs known as moss frogs in the family Pyxicephalidae. The ten species of this genus are endemic to South Africa.

It contains the following species:

  • Arthroleptella atermina Turner and Channing, 2017 - Riviersonderent moss frog
  • Arthroleptella bicolor Hewitt, 1926 – Bainskloof moss frog
  • Arthroleptella draconella Turner and Channing, 2017 – Drakenstein moss frog
  • Arthroleptella drewesii Channing, Hendricks and Dawood, 1994 – Drewes' moss frog
  • Arthroleptella kogelbergensis Turner and Channing, 2017 – Kogelsberg moss frog
  • Arthroleptella landdrosia Dawood and Channing, 2000 – Landdros moss frog
  • Arthroleptella lightfooti (Boulenger, 1910) – Lightfoot's moss frog
  • Arthroleptella rugosa Turner and Channing, 2008 – Rough moss frog
  • Arthroleptella subvoce Turner, de Villiers, Dawood and Channing, 2004 – Northern moss frog
  • Arthroleptella villiersi Hewitt, 1935 – De Villiers' moss frog

Two other species were formerly classified as Arthroleptella before recently found to belong to the formerly monotypic genus Anhydrophryne (Dawood and Stam 2006):

  • Arthroleptella hewittiAnhydrophryne hewitti (FitzSimons, 1947) – Hewitt's moss frog
  • Arthroleptella ngongoniensisAnhydrophryne ngongoniensis (Bishop and Passmore, 1993) – Ngoni moss frog
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