Canebrake Treefrogs

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Canebrake Treefrogs
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Family: Hylidae Genus: Aplastodiscus Lutz, 1950
Species
See text.

Canebrake Treefrogs (Aplastodiscus) is a genus of frogs in the Hylidae family, and are found in southern Brazil and Argentina. This genus contained only two species until recently when a major revision of the Hylidae family moved an additional 12 species to this genus from the Hyla genus [1].

[edit] Species

• Aplastodiscus albofrenatus (A. Lutz, 1924).
• Aplastodiscus albosignatus (A. Lutz and B. Lutz, 1938).
• Aplastodiscus arildae (Cruz and Peixoto, 1987).
• Aplastodiscus callipygius (Cruz and Peixoto, 1985).
• Aplastodiscus cavicola (Cruz and Peixoto, 1985).
• Aplastodiscus cochranae (Mertens, 1952).
• Aplastodiscus ehrhardti (Müller, 1924).
• Aplastodiscus flumineus (Cruz and Peixoto, 1985).
• Aplastodiscus ibirapitanga (Cruz, Pimenta, and Silvano, 2003).
• Aplastodiscus leucopygius (Cruz and Peixoto, 1985).
• Aplastodiscus musicus (B. Lutz, 1948).
• Aplastodiscus perviridis A. Lutz In B. Lutz, 1950.
• Aplastodiscus sibilatus (Cruz, Pimenta, and Silvano, 2003).
• Aplastodiscus weygoldti (Cruz and Peixoto, 1987).