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Arthroleptella is a genus of frogs known as moss frogs in the family Pyxicephalidae. The ten species of this genus are endemic to South Africa.

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Vinony's link graph records 16 inbound references to Arthroleptella, and connects out to Pyxicephalidae, Lightfoot's moss frog and Bainskloof moss frog.

Vinony files it under Amphibian genera, Amphibians of Sub-Saharan Africa and Arthroleptella.

Vinony links it to 16 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassAmphibia
  4. OrderAnura
  5. FamilyPyxicephalidae
Observations recorded1,096

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Specimen records
2
Family
Pyxicephalidae
Collections
NHMUK
Recorded in
South Africa

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Cacosterninae
Image
Arthroleptella lightfooti.jpg
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Category:Arthroleptella
taxon name
Arthroleptella
endemic to
South Africa
Commons category
Arthroleptella
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Arthroleptella is a genus of frogs known as moss frogs in the family Pyxicephalidae. The ten species of this genus are endemic to South Africa.

It contains the following species: Arthroleptella atermina Turner and Channing, 2017 - Riviersonderent moss frog Arthroleptella bicolor Hewitt, 1926 – Bainskloof moss frog Arthroleptella draconella Turner and Channing, 2017 – Drakenstein moss frog Arthroleptella drewesii Channing, Hendricks and Dawood, 1994 – Drewes' moss frog Arthroleptella kogelbergensis Turner and Channing, 2017 – Kogelsberg moss frog Arthroleptella landdrosia Dawood and Channing, 2000 – Landdros moss frog Arthroleptella lightfooti (Boulenger, 1910) – Lightfoot's moss frog Arthroleptella rugosa Turner and Channing, 2008 – Rough moss frog Arthroleptella subvoce Turner, de Villiers, Dawood and Channing, 2004 – Northern moss frog Arthroleptella villiersi Hewitt, 1935 – De Villiers' moss frog

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arthroleptella” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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