Arthroleptella

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Arthroleptella
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Arthroleptella lightfooti
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Pyxicephalidae
Subfamily: Cacosterninae
Genus: Arthroleptella
Hewitt, 1926
Species

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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: [1]

Two other species were formerly classified as Arthroleptella before recently found to belong to the formerly monotypic genus Anhydrophryne (Dawood and Stam 2006): [2] [3]

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References

  1. Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Arthroleptella Hewitt, 1926". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  2. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2013). "Anhydrophryne hewitti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2013: e.T58059A3064127. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T58059A3064127.en . Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  3. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group.; South African Frog Re-assessment Group; et al. (SA-FRoG) (2016). "Anhydrophryne ngongoniensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T58062A77157706. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T58062A77157706.en . Retrieved 17 November 2021.