
Elachistocleis is a genus of microhylid frogs found in southern America from Panama southwards. Their common name is oval frogs, although for historic reasons not all species are named so.
GENUS
Elachistocleis es un género de anfibios anuros neotropicales de la familia Microhylidae. Las especies del género se distribuyen por la mayoría de la Sudamérica tropical, Panamá y Trinidad.[1] Especies Se reconocen las siguientes 19 especies:[1] Elachistocleis araios Sánchez-Nivicela, Peloso, Urgilés, Yánez-Muñoz, Sagredo, Páez & Ron, 2020 Elachistocleis bicolor (Guérin-Méneville, 1838) Elachistocleis bumbameuboi Caramaschi, 2010 Elachistocleis carvalhoi Caramaschi, 2010 Elachistocleis cesarii (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920) Elachistocleis corumbaensis Piva, Caramaschi & Albuquerque, 2017 Elachistocleis erythrogaster Kwet & Di-Bernardo, 1998 Elachistocleis haroi[2] Pereyra, Akmentins, Laufer & Vaira, 2013 Elachistocleis helianneae Caramaschi, 2010 Elachistocleis magna Toledo, 2010 Elachistocleis matogrosso Caramaschi, 2010 Elachistocleis muiraquitan[3] Nunes de Almeida & Toledo, 2012 Elachistocleis ovalis (Schneider, 1799) Elachistocleis panamensis Caramaschi & Jim, 1983 Elachistocleis pearsei (Ruthven, 1914) Elachistocleis piauiensis Caramaschi & Jim, 1983 Elachistocleis skotogaster Lavilla, Vaira, & Ferrari, 2003 Elachistocleis surinamensis (Daudin, 180
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Elachistocleis is a genus of microhylid frogs found in southern America from Panama southwards. Their common name is oval frogs, although for historic reasons not all species are named so.
== Taxonomy == A 2021 study found that the genus originated in the Andes during the Oligocene, and contains two distinct clades that diverged from one another during the Middle Miocene. They dispersed throughout South America following the drying-out of the Pebas mega-wetland system, aided by the Amazon basin and other hydrological systems.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).