Staurois
| Staurois | |
|---|---|
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| Staurois natator | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Subclass: | Lissamphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Suborder: | Neobatrachia |
| Family: | Ranidae |
| Genus: | Staurois Cope, 1865 |
| Species | |
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6, and see text | |
Staurois is a small genus of minuscule true frogs. Most species in the genus are restricted to Borneo, but two species are from the Philippines.[1][2] This genus is a quite ancient member of the true frog family, Ranidae.[3] They are typically found in or near rapidly flowing, small rocky streams, and are sometimes known as splash frogs or foot-flagging frogs. The latter name refers to their unusual behavior of conspicuously waving their hindlegs and feet, as a way of signalling other members of the species.[4][5] Similar behavior has also been documented in other frog genera, notably Micrixalus.
Species
The six currently recognized species in the genus are:[1]
- Staurois guttatus (Günther, 1858) - Borneo; formerly included in S. natator
- Staurois latopalmatus (Boulenger, 1887) - Borneo
- Staurois natator (Günther, 1858) - Philippines
- Staurois nubilus (Mocquard, 1890) - Philippines; formerly included in S. natator
- Staurois parvus Inger & Haile, 1960 - Borneo; sometimes included in S. tuberilinguis
- Staurois tuberilinguis Boulenger, 1918 - Borneo
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Arifin, U., D. T. Iskandar, D. P. Bickford, R. M. Brown, R. Meier, and S. N. Kutty. (2011). Phylogenetic relationships within the genus Staurois (Anura, Ranidae) based on 16S rRNA sequences. Zootaxa 2744: 39–52
- ↑ Matsui et al. (2007)
- ↑ Stuart (2008)
- ↑ Grafe & Wanger (2007). Multimodal Signaling in Male and Female Foot-Flagging Frogs Staurois guttatus (Ranidae): An Alerting Function of Calling. Ehology 113(8): 772–781. DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01378.x
- ↑ Grafe, Preininger, Sztatecsny, Kasah, Dehling, Proksch & Höd (2012). Multimodal Communication in a Noisy Environment: A Case Study of the Bornean Rock Frog Staurois parvus. PLoS ONE, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037965
- Diesmos, A.; Alcala, A.; Brown, R.; Afuang, L.; Gee, G.; Inger, R.; Stuebing, R.; Das, I.; Yambun, P. & Lakim, M. (2004). Staurois natator. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 23 July 2007.
- Matsui, Masafumi; Mohamed, Maryati; Shimada, Tomohiko & Sudin, Ahmad (2007): Resurrection of Staurois parvus from S. tuberilinguis from Borneo (Amphibia, Ranidae). Zool. Sci. 24(1): 101–106. doi:10.2108/zsj.24.101 (HTML abstract)
- Stuart, Bryan L. (2008): The phylogenetic problem of Huia (Amphibia: Ranidae). Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 46(1): 49-60. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.09.016 (HTMl abstract)