Cacosternum

Cacosternum platys

Cacosternum is an amphibian genus of the family Pyxicephalidae.

Description

The pupils are horizontal. The tongue is pear-shaped, rear cut and lifted free. Teeth and palate rugae absent. The eardrum is invisible. Be found on the fingers and toes no almost no webbing. This does not intervene between the metatarsals of the 4th and 5th toe. The fingers and toes are not widened. Praecoracoide missing. The coracoids are slim. The sternum is extremely small and cartilaginous. The transverse processes of the sacral vertebra are weak broadened.

Occurrence

The genus is found in southern and eastern Africa.

System

The genus was first described in 1887 by Cacosternum George Albert Boulenger. It includes 15 species:

• Cacosternum boettgeri ( Boulenger, 1882)
• Cacosternum capense Hewitt, 1925
• Cacosternum karooicum Boycott, de Villiers & Scott, 2002
• Cacosternum kinangopensis Channing & Schmitz, 2009
• Cacosternum leleupi Laurent, 1950
• Cacosternum namaquense Werner, 1910
• Cacosternum nanum Boulenger, 1887
• Cacosternum parvum Poynton, 1963
• Cacosternum platys Rose, 1950
• Cacosternum striatum FitzSimons, 1947