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Arthroleptella (Moss Frogs)

Wikipedia Abstract

Arthroleptella is a genus of frog in the Pyxicephalidae family. Frogs in this genus are known as moss frogs. The seven species of this genus are endemic to South Africa. It contains the following species: Two other species were formerly classified as Arthroleptella before recently found to belong to the formerly monotypic genus Anhydrophryne (Dawood and Stam 2006): \n* Arthroleptella hewitti → Anhydrophryne hewitti (FitzSimons, 1947) – Hewitt's moss frog \n* Arthroleptella ngongoniensis → Anhydrophryne ngongoniensis (Bishop and Passmore, 1993) – Ngoni moss frog
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Species

Arthroleptella atermina
Arthroleptella bicolor (Bainskloof Moss Frog) (Attributes)
Arthroleptella draconella
Arthroleptella drewesii (Drewes' Moss Frog) (Attributes)
Arthroleptella kogelbergensis
Arthroleptella landdrosia (Landdros Moss Frog) (Attributes)
Arthroleptella lightfooti (Cape chirping frog) (Attributes)
Arthroleptella rugosa (Rough Moss Frog) (Critically Endangered) (Attributes)
Arthroleptella subvoce (Northern Moss Frog) (Critically Endangered) (Attributes)
Arthroleptella villiersi (De Villier's Moss Frog) (Attributes)

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0