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Stumpffia
Sign in to saveStumpffia is a genus of microhylid frogs that are endemic to Madagascar. They are mostly brown frogs that typically live among leaf litter. S. contumelia has a snout–vent length of about , making it one of the world's smallest frogs, and several others in the genus are only slightly larger. The largest species is no more than .
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAmphibia
- OrderAnura
- FamilyMicrohylidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 339
- Family
- Microhylidae
- Collections
- KU, UF, CAS
- Recorded in
- Madagascar, Seychelles
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cophylinae
- Image
- Stumpffia sp., Marojejy, Madagascar (4023091420).jpg
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- Commons category
- Stumpffia
- topic's main category
- Category:Stumpffia
- taxon name
- Stumpffia
- taxon rank
- genus
- endemic to
- Madagascar
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Debate on synonymy with ''Rhombophryne''
- Species
- References
Stumpffia is a genus of microhylid frogs that are endemic to Madagascar. They are mostly brown frogs that typically live among leaf litter. S. contumelia has a snout–vent length of about , making it one of the world's smallest frogs, and several others in the genus are only slightly larger. The largest species is no more than .
The majority of the species have only been described since 2010. Each species has a small range and many are seriously threatened.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stumpffia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.