Lynchius

Lynchius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Craugastoridae
Subfamily: Holoadeninae
Genus: Lynchius
Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008[1]
Type species
Phrynopus parkeri
Lynch, 1975
Diversity
4 species (see text)

Lynchius is a small genus of frogs in the Craugastoridae family.[2] The name honours herpetologist John D. Lynch.[1] The distribution of Lynchius is restricted to the Cordillera Oriental in southern Ecuador and Cordillera de Huancabamba in northern Peru.[2]

Taxonomy

The placement of Lynchius in Craugastoridae is a new arrangement and many earlier accounts put it in the Strabomantinae subfamily of the Strabomantidae family.[3][4][5] The genus itself is relatively new too: it was split off from Phrynopus in 2008 in order to resolve the paraphyly of that genus.[6] The sister taxon of Lynchius is Oreobates.[2]

Description

Lynchius are relatively small frogs (snout–vent length up to 43 mm (1.7 in) in Lynchius flavomaculatus) with a narrow head, not as wide as body. Skin is smooth.[1]

Species

There are four species in this genus:[2][5]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hedges, S. B., Duellman, W. E., and Heinicke, M. P (2008). "New World direct-developing frogs (Anura: Terrarana): Molecular phylogeny, classification, biogeography, and conservation". Zootaxa 1737: 1–182.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Lynchius Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  3. ↑ Blackburn, D.C.; Wake, D.B. (2011). "Class Amphibia Gray, 1825. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness". Zootaxa 3148: 39–55.
  4. ↑ Vitt, Laurie J.; Caldwell, Janalee P. (2014). Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles (4th ed.). Academic Press. p. 501.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Strabomantidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  6. ↑ Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Phrynopus Peters, 1873". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 5 July 2014.