Staurois

<i>Staurois</i>

Staurois

Genus of amphibians

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 Hylodes and Micrixalus.

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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. [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
  2. [2]
    Matsui et al. (2007)
  3. [3]
    Stuart (2008)
  4. [4]
    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
  5. [5]
    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". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004. IUCN: e.T58762A115204102. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58762A11823304.en. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  • 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)


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