| Physalaemus | |
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| Physalaemus cuvieri | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Leptodactylidae |
| Subfamily: | Leiuperinae |
| Genus: | Physalaemus Fitzinger, 1826 |
| Type species | |
| Physalaemus cuvieri Fitzinger, 1826
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| Diversity | |
| About 48 species (see text) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Physalaemus is a large genus of leptodactylid frogs. These frogs, sometimes known as dwarf frogs or foam frogs, are found in South America.1 It is very similar to Leptodactylus, a close relative, and indeed the recently described Leptodactylus lauramiriamae is in some aspects intermediate between them.2 They have been described by researchers as presenting one of the most puzzling taxonomic histories among Neotropical anurans because of the occurrence of highly polymorphic and cryptic species.3
Species
There are 5113 or 50 species (AmphibiaWeb lists Physalaemus nattereri as Eupemphix nattereri ):4
- Physalaemus aguirrei Bokermann, 1966
- Physalaemus albifrons (Spix, 1824)
- Physalaemus albonotatus (Steindachner, 1864)
- Physalaemus angrensis (Weber, Gonzaga & Carvalho-e-Silva, 2006)
- Physalaemus araxa (Leal et al., 2021)
- Physalaemus atim (Brasileiro & Haddad, 2015)
- Physalaemus atlanticus (Haddad & Sazima, 2004)
- Physalaemus barrioi (Bokermann, 1967)
- Physalaemus biligonigerus (Cope, 1861)
- Physalaemus bokermanni (Cardoso & Haddad, 1985)
- Physalaemus caete (Pombal & Madureira, 1997)
- Physalaemus camacan (Pimenta, Cruz & Silvano, 2005)
- Physalaemus carrizorum (Cardozo & Pereyra, 2018)
- Physalaemus centralis (Bokermann, 1962)
- Physalaemus cicada (Bokermann, 1966)
- Physalaemus claptoni (Leal et al., 2020)
- Physalaemus cristinae (Cardozo et al., 2023)
- Physalaemus crombiei (Heyer & Wolf, 1989)
- Physalaemus cuqui (Lobo, 1993)
- Physalaemus cuvieri (Fitzinger, 1826)
- Physalaemus deimaticus (Sazima & Caramaschi, 1988)
- Physalaemus ephippifer (Steindachner, 1864)
- Physalaemus erikae (Cruz & Pimenta, 2004)
- Physalaemus erythros (Caramaschi, Feio & Guimarães, 2003)
- Physalaemus evangelistai (Bokermann, 1967)
- Physalaemus feioi (Cassini, Cruz & Caramaschi, 2010)
- Physalaemus fernandezae (Müller, 1926)
- Physalaemus fischeri (Boulenger, 1890)
- Physalaemus gracilis (Boulenger, 1883)
- Physalaemus henselii (Peters, 1872)
- Physalaemus insperatus (Cruz, Cassini & Caramaschi, 2008)
- Physalaemus irroratus (Cruz, Nascimento & Feio, 2007)
- Physalaemus jordanensis (Bokermann, 1967)
- Physalaemus kroyeri (Reinhardt & Lütken, 1862)
- Physalaemus lateristriga (Steindachner, 1864)
- Physalaemus lisei (Braun & Braun, 1977)
- Physalaemus maculiventris (Lutz, 1925)
- Physalaemus marmoratus (Reinhardt & Lütken, 1862)
- Physalaemus maximus (Feio, Pombal & Caramaschi, 1999)
- Physalaemus moreirae (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937)
- Physalaemus nanus (Boulenger, 1888)
- Physalaemus nattereri (Steindachner, 1863)
- Physalaemus obtectus (Bokermann, 1966)
- Physalaemus olfersii (Lichtenstein & Martens, 1856)
- Physalaemus orophilus (Cassini, Cruz & Caramaschi, 2010)
- Physalaemus riograndensis (Milstead, 1960)
- Physalaemus rupestris (Caramaschi, Carcerelli & Feio, 1991)
- Physalaemus santafecinus (Barrio, 1965)
- Physalaemus signifer (Girard, 1853)
- Physalaemus soaresi (Izecksohn, 1965)
- Physalaemus spiniger (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926)
References
References
- Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Physalaemus Fitzinger, 1826". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- Heyer, W. Ronald & Crombie, Ronald I. (2005): Leptodactylus lauramiriamae, a distinctive new species of frog (Amphibia: Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Rondônia, Brazil. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 118(3): 590–595. DOI: 10.2988/0006-324X(2005)118[590:LLADNS]2.0.CO;2 HTML abstract
- Cardozo, Dario; Tomatis, Cristian; Duport Bru, Ana S.; Kolenc, Francisco; Borteiro, Claudio; Pansonato, André; Confalonieri, Viviana; Lourenço, Luciana Bolsoni; Haddad, Célio F.B.; Baldo, Diego (2023-12-20). "The Taxonomic Status of Physalaemus cuqui Lobo, 1993, with the Description of a New Species of Physalaemus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Argentina and Paraguay". Herpetological Monographs. 37 (1): 95–128. doi:10.1655/herpmonographs-d-22-00003. ISSN 0733-1347.
- "Leptodactylidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2016.