Cochranella

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Cochranella
Mating Cochranella spinosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Amphibia
Subclass: Lissamphibia
Order: Anura
Suborder: Neobatrachia
Family: Centrolenidae
Subfamily: Centroleninae
Genus: Cochranella
Taylor, 1951
Species

About 55, see text

Cochranella is a genus of glass frogs, characterized by lacking humeral spines in males, and having a lobed liver. About one-third of the species formerly placed in Cochranella were placed into the genus Nymphargus.[1]

Delimitation against Centrolene is not entirely resolved to satisfaction, and several species formerly in Hyalinobatrachium are now placed here.

Selected species

Though this list is reasonably complete, new species are described on a continuous basis and may be missing.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Cisneros-Heredia & McDiarmid (2007)

References

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  • 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
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