Nannophryne
Nannophryne
Genus of amphibians
Nannophryne is a small genus of true toads, family Bufonidae,[1][2][3] from South America. They are found in central Andean Peru south to southern Chile and adjacent Argentina.[1]
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| Nannophryne | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Bufonidae |
| Genus: | Nannophryne Günther, 1870 |
| Type species | |
| Nannophryne variegata Günther, 1870 | |
| Diversity | |
| 4 species (see text) | |
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The genus was placed in synonymy with Bufo by George Albert Boulenger in 1894,[1] but it was resurrected in 2006 by Frost when splitting the then very large Bufo into smaller, monophyletic genera.[4] This change was controversial but has now largely been accepted.[2][3][5] The alternative, treating Nannophryne as a subgenus of Bufo, still has some following.[1]
There are four species in this genus:[1][2]
- Nannophryne apolobambica (De la Riva, Ríos, and Aparicio, 2005)
- Nannophryne cophotis (Boulenger, 1900)
- Nannophryne corynetes (Duellman and Ochoa-M., 1991)
- Nannophryne variegata Günther, 1870
- Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Nannophryne Günther, 1870". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- "Bufonidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- Frost, D. R.; Grant, T.; Faivovich, J. N.; Bain, R. H.; Haas, A.; Haddad, C. L. F. B.; De Sá, R. O.; Channing, A.; Wilkinson, M.; Donnellan, S. C.; Raxworthy, C. J.; Campbell, J. A.; Blotto, B. L.; Moler, P.; Drewes, R. C.; Nussbaum, R. A.; Lynch, J. D.; Green, D. M.; Wheeler, W. C. (2006). "The Amphibian Tree of Life". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 297: 1–291. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/5781. S2CID 86140137.
- 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" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3148: 39–55. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.8.
