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Ischnocnema

(Genus)

Overview

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Frogs of the genus Ischnocnema form the southeast Brazil clade of species that have formerly been classified as Eleutherodactylus.^1]

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Taxonomy

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The Genus Ischnocnema is further organized into finer groupings including:

Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 36 species and subspecies in the Genus Ischnocnema: I. bilineata · I. bolbodactyla · I. choristolemma · I. epipeda · I. erythromera · I. gehrti · I. gualteri · I. guentheri · I. henselii · I. hoehnei · I. holti · I. izecksohni · I. juipoca · I. lactea · I. manezinho · I. nasuta · I. nigriventris · I. octavioi · I. oea · I. paranaensis · I. parva · I. paulodutrai · I. penaxavantinho · I. pusilla · I. quixensis (Common Big-Heded Frog) · I. ramagii · I. randorum · I. sambaqui · I. sanctaecrucis · I. sanderi · I. saxatilis · I. simmonsi · I. spanios · I. venancioi · I. verrucosa · I. vinhai

References

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^ Heinicke, M.P., W.E. Duellman & S.B. Hedges (2007). "Major Caribbean and Central American frog faunas originated by ancient oceanic dispersal". Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 104 (24): 10092?7. doi:10.1073/pnas.0611051104. PMC 1891260. PMID 17548823. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1891260.

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