Anomaloglossus is a genus of frogs in the family Aromobatidae.[2][3][4] The genus is endemic to the Guiana Shield in northern South America.[2][4] It used to be placed in the family Dendrobatidae (together with other genera in the current Aromobatidae[1][5]), and is still placed in that family by some sources.[6] The name of the genus, from the Greek anomalos (=irregular, unusual) and glossa (=tongue), refers to the unusual tongue bearing the median lingual process, the only unambiguous phenotypic synapomorphy of this genus.[1]
| Anomaloglossus | |
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| Anomaloglossus beebei | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Aromobatidae |
| Subfamily: | Anomaloglossinae |
| Genus: | Anomaloglossus Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006[1] |
| Type species | |
| Colostethus beebei Noble, 1923
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| Species | |
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30 species (see text) | |
Description edit
Anomaloglossus are characterized by cryptic dorsal coloration (brown or gray). Dorsal skin is posteriorly granular. The toes are webbed, ranging from basal to extensive. The fingers have weakly expanded discs.[1] Many species show large intraspecific morphological variability and lack of morphological characters that would allow easy species identification.[4]
Species edit
The following 30 species are recognised in the genus Anomaloglossus:[2]
- Anomaloglossus apiau Fouquet, Souza, Nunes, Kok, Curcio, Carvalho, Grant, and Rodrigues, 2015
- Anomaloglossus ayarzaguenai (La Marca, 1997)
- Anomaloglossus baeobatrachus (Boistel and Massary, 1999)
- Anomaloglossus beebei (Noble, 1923)
- Anomaloglossus blanci Fouquet, Vacher, Courtois, Villette, Reizine, Gaucher, Jairam, Ouboter, and Kok, 2018
- Anomaloglossus breweri (Barrio-Amorós, 2006)
- Anomaloglossus degranvillei (Lescure, 1975)
- Anomaloglossus dewynteri Fouquet, Vacher, Courtois, Villette, Reizine, Gaucher, Jairam, Ouboter, and Kok, 2018
- Anomaloglossus guanayensis (La Marca, 1997)
- Anomaloglossus kaiei (Kok, Sambhu, Roopsind, Lenglet, and Bourne, 2006)
- Anomaloglossus leopardus Ouboter and Jairam, 2012
- Anomaloglossus meansi Kok, Nicolaï, Lathrop & MacCulloch, 2018[7]
- Anomaloglossus megacephalus Kok, MacCulloch, Lathrop, Willaert, and Bossuyt, 2010
- Anomaloglossus mitaraka Fouquet, Vacher, Courtois, Deschamps, Ouboter, Jairam, Gaucher, Dubois, and Kok, 2019
- Anomaloglossus moffetti Barrio-Amorós and Brewer-Carias, 2008
- Anomaloglossus murisipanensis (La Marca, 1997)
- Anomaloglossus parimae (La Marca, 1997)
- Anomaloglossus parkerae (Meinhardt and Parmalee, 1996)
- Anomaloglossus praderioi (La Marca, 1997)
- Anomaloglossus roraima (La Marca, 1997)
- Anomaloglossus rufulus (Gorzula, 1990)
- Anomaloglossus shrevei (Rivero, 1961)
- Anomaloglossus stepheni (Martins, 1989)
- Anomaloglossus surinamensis Ouboter and Jairam, 2012
- Anomaloglossus tamacuarensis (Myers and Donnelly, 1997)
- Anomaloglossus tepequem Fouquet, Souza, Nunes, Kok, Curcio, Carvalho, Grant, and Rodrigues, 2015
- Anomaloglossus tepuyensis (La Marca, 1997)
- Anomaloglossus triunfo (Barrio-Amorós, Fuentes-Ramos, and Rivas-Fuenmayor, 2004)
- Anomaloglossus verbeeksnyderorum Barrio-Amorós, Santos, and Jovanovic, 2010
- Anomaloglossus wothuja (Barrio-Amorós, Fuentes-Ramos, and Rivas-Fuenmayor, 2004)
References edit
- ^ a b c d Grant, Taran; Frost, Darrel R.; Caldwell, Janalee P.; Gagliardo, Ron; Haddad, Célio F.B.; Kok, Philippe J.R.; Means, D. Bruce; Noonan, Brice P.; Schargel, Walter E. & Wheeler, Ward C. (2006). "Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 299: 1–262. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)299[1:PSODFA]2.0.CO;2.
- ^ a b c d Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Anomaloglossus Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ "Anomaloglossus Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ^ a b c d Vacher, Jean-Pierre; Kok, Philippe J.R.; Rodrigues, Miguel T.; Lima, Jucivaldo Dias; Lorenzini, Andy; Martinez, Quentin; Fallet, Manon; Courtois, Elodie A.; Blanc, Michel; Gaucher, Philippe; Dewynter, Maël; Jairam, Rawien; Ouboter, Paul; Thébaud, Christophe & Fouquet, Antoine (2017). "Cryptic diversity in Amazonian frogs: Integrative taxonomy of the genus Anomaloglossus (Amphibia: Anura: Aromobatidae) reveals a unique case of diversification within the Guiana Shield". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 112: 158–173. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.04.017. PMID 28438699.
- ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Aromobatidae Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ "Dendrobatidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ Kok, Philippe J.R.; Nicolaï, Michaël P.J.; Lathrop, Amy & MacCulloch, Ross D. (2018). "Anomaloglossus meansi sp. n., a new Pantepui species of the Anomaloglossus beebei group (Anura, Aromobatidae)". ZooKeys (759): 99–116. doi:10.3897/zookeys.759.24742. PMC 5974005. PMID 29861648.