Platymantis

genus of amphibians

Platymantis is a group of frogs in the family Ceratobatrachidae. In English, they are named wrinkled ground frogs, ground frogs,[1][2] and forest frogs.

Platymantis
Fiji tree frog (Platymantis vitiensis)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Ceratobatrachidae
Genus: Platymantis
Günther, 1858
Type species
Halophila vitiensis
Girard, 1853

Most of the frogs in Platymantis live in the Philippines.[1]

Platymantis is a large genus, and scientists disagree about which frogs should be in it.[1]

Species change

Right now, scientists say at least 30 living species are in this genus.[1] Brown, et al. (2015)[3] say there may be more, 50-60 species, because scientists have not written papers about all of them yet.

Platymantis also has one dead species in it:

Species moved to genus Cornufer change

Brown et al. (2015)[3] moved many species in Platymantis into a new genus, Cornufer. They kept all the frogs that living in the Philippines in Platymantis.

Where they live change

Many Platymantis species live in only a few places.

References change

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Platymantis Günther, 1858". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  2. "Platymantis Günther, 1858". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Brown, Rafe M.; Siler, Cameron D.; Richards, Stephen J.; Diesmos, Arvin C.; Cannatella, David C. (2015). "Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for Southeast Asian and Melanesian forest frogs (family Ceratobatrachidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 174 (1): 130–168. doi:10.1111/zoj.12232.
  4. "Platymantis megabotoniviti; holotype (a) paratypes (b-h)". Collections Online. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 18 July 2010.

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