Dryaderces
Sign in to saveDryaderces is a small genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. Their known distribution is disjunct, with one species found in the upper Amazon Basin and lower Andean slopes between central Peru and Amazonian Bolivia, and another one in Pará, Brazil. Its sister taxon is Osteocephalus. No phenotypic synapomorphies defining the genus are known.
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Santarem Spiny-backed Frog
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAmphibia
- OrderAnura
- FamilyHylidae
Observations7
Groupamphibia
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Dryaderces is a small genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. Their known distribution is disjunct, with one species found in the upper Amazon Basin and lower Andean slopes between central Peru and Amazonian Bolivia, and another one in Pará, Brazil. Its sister taxon is Osteocephalus. No phenotypic synapomorphies defining the genus are known.
==Etymology== The generic name Dryaderces is derived from Ancient Greek dryad (=tree) and aderces (=unseen, invisible), thus meaning "unseen in a tree".
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Amphibian generaDryadercesFrogs of BrazilHylidaeTaxa named by D. Bruce MeansTaxa named by Ignacio J. De la RivaTaxa named by Jiří Moravec (herpetologist)Taxa named by Josefa Celsa SeñarisTaxa named by José Manuel PadialTaxa named by Miguel Trefaut RodriguesTaxa named by Philippe J.R. KokTaxa named by Ross Douglas MacCulloch