Glass frog

Teratohyla spinosa, in amplexus

The glass frogs ( Centrolenidae ) constitute a family of New World anurans, the southeastern Brazil and northeastern Argentina live in rainforests between southern Mexico to the north and Bolivia, on the south.

Features

The glass frogs differ anatomically from all other frog families through a verwachsenes heel bone. Upper hand, they are usually colored green, while they have at hand a transparent skin, so that the heart, the digestive system as well as the maturing eggs are visible from the outside. With the exception of the Gecko Glass frog ( Centrolene geckoideum ), which is up to eight inches long, glass frogs usually remain less than three inches; some even reach only 1.5 centimeters body length. You see tree frogs similar and how these adhesive disks at the ends of limbs that enable them to climb. Are striking their often very large, highly salient and forward-facing eyes with horizontally slotted pupils.

Reproduction

On sheets hanging over streams and rivers, the females lay their eggs of some species, which are often colored green. After hatching, the tadpoles fall into the water where they live mostly hidden at the bottom.

Taxonomy

Currently, about 150 species are distinguished. The systematics of glass frogs is still sufficiently clarified. As recently as 2009 a far-reaching revision was made ​​in, among other seven genera have been re- established, so that currently assumed about 12 Branches. As a sister taxon of Centrolenidae applies the Blattkrötchen ( Allophryne ruthveni ), which is managed in a separate family Allophrynidae.

( Processing status: July 2009)

  • Genus Ikakogi Guayasamin, Castroveijo - Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada & Vilà, 2009 ( incertae sedis )

Subfamily cents Role Ninae Taylor, 1951

  • Genus Centrolene Jiménez de la Espada, 1872
  • Genus Nymphargus Cisneros - Heredia & McDiarmid, 2007
  • Tribus Cochranellini Guayasamin, Castroveijo - Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada & Vilà, 2009 ( prior to 2009 were all genera of the tribe in the genus Cochranella combined ) Genus Chimerella Guayasamin, Castroveijo - Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada & Vilà, 2009
  • Genus Cochranella Taylor, 1951
  • Genus Espadarana Guayasamin, Castroveijo - Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada & Vilà, 2009
  • Genus Rulyrana Guayasamin, Castroveijo - Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada & Vilà, 2009
  • Genus Sachatamia Guayasamin, Castroveijo - Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada & Vilà, 2009
  • Genus Teratohyla Taylor, 1951
  • Genus Vitreorana Guayasamin, Castroveijo - Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada & Vilà, 2009

Subfamily Hyalinobatrachinae Guayasamin, Castroveijo - Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada & Vilà, 2009

  • Genus Celsiella Guayasamin, Castroveijo - Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada & Vilà, 2009
  • Genus Hyalinobatrachium Ruiz- Carranza & Lynch, 1991

Centrolene buckleyi

Centrolene paezorum

Centrolene quindianum

Centrolene savagei with scrim

Cochranella euknemos

Espadarana prosoblepon in amplexus

Hyalinobatrachium colymbiphyllum next to an egg masses

Hyalinobatrachium meat manni

Hyalinobatrachium ruedai

Nymphargus rosada

Rulyrana susatamai

Sachatamia ilex

Sachatamia punctulata

Teratohyla midas

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