Discoglossidae
Discoglossidae is a family of frogs. They are commonly known as the Disc-Tongued Frogs.[1] They live in Europe but some species have been found in Northeastern Africa. An extinct species of the Discoglossidae family used to live in Israel.
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The family has two genus. They include the Alytes and Discoglossus. The Discoglossus frogs looks very alike to toads and can be found on land. The Alytes are more smoother and look more like frogs. They are seen in the water.[2] All of the species of the Discoglossidae will lay their eggs in ponds and will turn into tadpoles.
Species
The genus Bombina and Barbourula also used to be under this family but have now been moved to the Bombinatoridae family,
Family Discoglossidae
- Genus Alytes
- Alytes cisternasii - Iberian Midwife Toad
- Alytes dickhilleni - Southern Midwife Toad
- Alytes maurus - Moroccan Midwife Toad
- Alytes muletensis - Majorcan Midwife Toad
- Alytes obstetricans - Common Midwife Toad
- Genus Discoglossus
- Discoglossus galganoi - West Iberian Painted Frog
- Discoglossus jeanneae - Spanish Painted Frog
- Discoglossus montalenti - Corsican Painted Frog
- Discoglossus nigriventer - Israel Painted Frog
- Discoglossus pictus - Common Painted Frog
- Discoglossus sardus - Tyrrhenian Painted Frog
- Genus †Enneabatrachus (prehistoric)
- †Enneabatrachus hechti
Discoglossidae Media
Benny Trapp Alytes cisternasii
BennyTrapp Cädiz-Scheibenzüngler bzw Iberischer Scheibenzüngler Discoglossus (galganoi) jeannaea
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Iberian midwife toad (Alytes cisternasii)
Iberian or Portuguese painted frog (Discoglossus galganoi)
Fossil discoglossid from Miocene (†Latonia seyfriedi)
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References
- ↑ Amphibian Species of the World uses the name Alytidae for this family in its fifth edition.
- ↑ Zweifel, Richard George. Encyclopedia of Reptiles & Amphibians (1998). San Diego, CA. ISBN 0-12-178560-2. OCLC 39559811.
Books
- San Mauro, Diego. Phylogenetic relationships of discoglossid frogs (Amphibia:Anura:Discoglossidae) based on complete mitochondrial genomes and nuclear genes. Gene 343 (2) (December 2004). p. 357–366. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2004.10.001.
- San Mauro, Diego. Initial diversification of living amphibians predated the breakup of Pangaea. American Naturalist 165 (5) (May 2005). p. 590–599. doi:10.1086/429523. Retrieved 2012-07-26.