Nyctimantis

Nyctimantis
Nyctimantis bokermanni
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hylidae
Subfamily:	Lophyohylinae
Genus:	Nyctimantis Boulenger, 1882
Species
see text
Synonyms
Aparasphenodon Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920 [1] ArgenteohylaTrueb, 1970 [1]

Nyctimantis is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. The genus is found in south-eastern Brazil as well as in the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. ^{[2] [3]} These are tree-dwelling species usually hiding in the cisterns of epiphytic bromeliads. The top of the head carries a bony plate which is fused with the skin.

In 2021, based on phylogenetic evidence, the genus was redefined to include most species previously included in genera Aparasphenodon and Argenteohyla, which are now treated as synonyms of Nyctimantis. ^[1]

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Nyctimantis: ^{[2] [4]}

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	Rio Pomba's spotted tree frog
Nyctimantis rugiceps Boulenger, 1882	Brown-eyed treefrog
Nyctimantis siemersi (Mertens, 1937)	Red-spotted Argentina frog

References

1. Blotto, Boris L.; Lyra, Mariana L.; Cardoso, Monica C.S.; Trefaut Rodrigues, Miguel; R. Dias, Iuri; Marciano‐Jr, Euvaldo; Dal Vechio, Francisco; Orrico, Victor G.D.; Brandão, Reuber A.; Lopes de Assis, Clodoaldo; Lantyer‐Silva, Amanda S.F.; Rutherford, Mike G.; Gagliardi‐Urrutia, Giussepe; Solé, Mirco; Baldo, Diego (February 2021). "The phylogeny of the Casque‐headed Treefrogs (Hylidae: Hylinae: Lophyohylini)". Cladistics. 37 (1): 36–72. doi: 10.1111/cla.12409 . ISSN   0748-3007. PMID   34478174. S2CID   216184713.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. "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]

External links

• eol - Encyclopedia of Life taxon Aparasphenodon at http://www.eol.org.
• ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database Taxon Aparasphenodon at https://web.archive.org/web/20160606043808/http://www.itis.gov/index.html. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008).
• GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxon Aparasphenodon at https://web.archive.org/web/20080501142231/http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm