Nymphargus
| Nymphargus | |
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| Nymphargus rosada | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Centrolenidae |
| Subfamily: | Centroleninae |
| Genus: | Nymphargus Cisneros-Heredia & McDiarmid, 2007 |
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36 species | |
Nymphargus is a genus of glass frogs in subfamily Centroleninae, which was established in 2007. They are distributed in the Andean slopes of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.[1] They are characterized by lacking webbing among the outer fingers, lacking humeral spines in adult males, and having a lobed liver covered by a transparent hepatic peritoneum.[2]
Species
Most species have been recently moved here from Cochranella.[2] As of 2014, the genus contains 36 species:[1]
- Nymphargus anomalus (Lynch and Duellman, 1973)
- Nymphargus armatus (Lynch and Ruiz-Carranza, 1996)
- Nymphargus bejaranoi (Cannatella, 1980)
- Nymphargus buenaventura (Cisneros-Heredia and Yánez-Muñoz, 2007)
- Nymphargus cariticommatus (Wild, 1994)
- Nymphargus chami (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1995)
- Nymphargus chancas (Duellman and Schulte, 1993)
- Nymphargus cochranae (Goin, 1961)
- Nymphargus cristinae (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1995)
- Nymphargus garciae (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1995)
- Nymphargus grandisonae (Cochran and Goin, 1970)
- Nymphargus griffithsi (Goin, 1961)
- Nymphargus ignotus (Lynch, 1990)
- Nymphargus lasgralarias Hutter and Guayasamin, 2012[3]
- Nymphargus laurae Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007
- Nymphargus luminosus (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1995)
- Nymphargus luteopunctatus (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1996)
- Nymphargus mariae (Duellman and Toft, 1979)
- Nymphargus megacheirus (Lynch and Duellman, 1973)
- Nymphargus mixomaculatus (Guayasamin, Lehr, Rodríguez, and Aguilar, 2006)
- Nymphargus nephelophila (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991)
- Nymphargus ocellatus (Boulenger, 1918)
- Nymphargus oreonympha (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991)
- Nymphargus phenax (Cannatella and Duellman, 1982)
- Nymphargus pluvialis (Cannatella and Duellman, 1982)
- Nymphargus posadae (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1995)
- Nymphargus prasinus (Duellman, 1981)
- Nymphargus puyoensis (Flores and McDiarmid, 1989)
- Nymphargus rosada (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1997)
- Nymphargus ruizi (Lynch, 1993)
- Nymphargus siren (Lynch and Duellman, 1973)
- Nymphargus spilotus (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1997)
- Nymphargus sucre Guayasamin, 2013
- Nymphargus truebae (Duellman, 1976)
- Nymphargus vicenteruedai Velásquez-Álvarez, Rada, Sánchez-Pacheco, and Acosta-Galvis, 2007
- Nymphargus wileyi (Guayasamin, Bustamante, Almeida-Reinoso, and Funk, 2006)
Footnotes
References
- Cisneros-Heredia, D.F. & McDiarmid, R.W. (2007): Revision of the characters of Centrolenidae (Amphibia: Anura: Athesphatanura), with comments on its taxonomy and the description of new taxa of glassfrogs. Zootaxa 1572: 1-82. PDF fulltext
- Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Nymphargus Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
- Hutter, C.R. & Guayasamin, J.M. (2012): A new cryptic species of glassfrog (Centrolenidae: Nymphargus) from Reserva Las Gralarias, Ecuador. Zootaxa 3257: 1-21. PDF Excerpt