Stefania
| Stefania | |
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| Stefania evansi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | "Amphibia" (wide sense) |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hemiphractidae |
| Genus: | Stefania Rivero, 1968 |
| Type species | |
| Stefania evansi Boulenger, 1904 | |
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Stefania is a genus of frogs in the family Hemiphractidae. They are native to the highlands of the Guiana Shield in southern Venezuela, Guyana, and adjacent far northern Brazil.[1] Most are restricted to the tepui highlands, but S. evansi also occurs in lowlands. On most mountains there are only 1–2 species from this genus, but 5 are known from Mount Ayanganna and the neighbouring Mount Wokomung has 6 species. They are usually found near streams at low levels on branches/leaves or on the ground among vegetation/rocks.
They are famous for their breeding strategy where the development from eggs to froglets is completed on the back of the female (the eggs hatch to froglets; there is no free-swimming tadpole stage). The common name carrying frog is sometimes used for Stefania species and it refers to this behavior. A comparable behavior can also be seen in the other genera in the family Hemiphractidae.
Species
- Stefania ackawaio MacCulloch & Lathrop, 2002.
- Stefania ayangannae MacCulloch & Lathrop, 2002.
- Stefania breweri Barrio-Amorós & Fuentes-Ramos, 2003.
- Stefania coxi MacCulloch & Lathrop, 2002.
- Stefania evansi (Boulenger, 1904).
- Stefania ginesi Rivero, 1968.
- Stefania goini Rivero, 1968.
- Stefania marahuaquensis (Rivero, 1961).
- Stefania oculosa Señaris, Ayarzagüena & Gorzula, 1997.
- Stefania percristata Señaris, Ayarzagüena & Gorzula, 1997.
- Stefania riae Duellman & Hoogmoed, 1984.
- Stefania riveroi Señaris, Ayarzagüena & Gorzula, 1997.
- Stefania roraimae Duellman & Hoogmoed, 1984.
- Stefania satelles Señaris, Ayarzagüena & Gorzula, 1997.
- Stefania scalae Rivero, 1970.
- Stefania schuberti Señaris, Ayarzagüena & Gorzula, 1997.
- Stefania tamacuarina Myers & Donnelly, 1997.
- Stefania woodleyi Rivero, 1968.
References
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. (2013). "Stefania Rivero, 1968". Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
- MacCulloch and Lathrop (2002). "Exceptional diversity of Stefania (Anura: Hylidae) on Mount Ayanganna, Guyana: three new species and new distribution records." Herpetologica 58: 327-346.
- MacCulloch, Lathrop and Khan (2006). Exceptional diversity in Stefania (Anura, Cryptobatrachidae) II: Six species from Mount Wokomung, Guyana. Phyllomedusa 5(1): 31-41