Platymantis

Platymantis is a group of frogs in the family Ceratobatrachidae. In English, they are named wrinkled ground frogs, ground frogs,[1][2] and forest frogs.

Platymantis
Fiji tree frog Tamara Osborne.JPG
Fiji tree frog (Platymantis vitiensis)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Ceratobatrachidae
Genus: Platymantis
Günther, 1858
Type species
Halophila vitiensis
Girard, 1853

Most of the frogs in Platymantis live in the Philippines.[1]

Platymantis is a large genus, and scientists disagree about which frogs should be in it.[1]

Species

Right now, scientists say at least 30 living species are in this genus.[1] Brown, et al. (2015)[3] say there may be more, 50-60 species, because scientists have not written papers about all of them yet.

Platymantis also has one dead species in it:

Species moved to genus Cornufer

Brown et al. (2015)[3] moved many species in Platymantis into a new genus, Cornufer. They kept all the frogs that living in the Philippines in Platymantis.

Where they live

Many Platymantis species live in only a few places.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Frost, Darrel R.. 'Platymantis Günther, 1858. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 (2014)American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  2. Platymantis Günther, 1858 (TSN {{{ID}}}). Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Brown, Rafe M.. Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for Southeast Asian and Melanesian forest frogs (family Ceratobatrachidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174 (1) (2015). p. 130–168. doi:10.1111/zoj.12232.
  4. Platymantis megabotoniviti; holotype (a) paratypes (b-h). Collections OnlineMuseum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 18 July 2010.

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