Marble buns

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Marble buns
Green marble tuber (Scaphiophryne marmorata)

Green marble tuber ( Scaphiophryne marmorata )

Systematics
without rank: Amphibians (Lissamphibia)
Order : Frog (anura)
Subordination : Neobatrachia
Family : Narrow-mouth frogs (Microhylidae)
Subfamily : Scaphiophryninae
Genre : Marble buns
Scientific name
Scaphiophryne
Boulenger , 1882
Red Marble Toad ( Scaphiophryne gottlebei )
Prickly marble tuber ( Scaphiophryne spinosa )

The scaphiophryne ( Scaphiophryne from Greek skaphĭon = small boat and Φρύνη - Phryne = toad) are an amphibian genus of the family -mouthed .

description

The pupils are horizontal. The tongue is elliptical, with entire margins and freely liftable at the back. Palatine teeth are missing. There are two transverse folds of skin in front of the throat. The eardrum is invisible. The fingers are free and widened at the tips to form large, heart-shaped adhesive discs . The toes are connected by a web of webbing at their base . This does not intervene between the metatarsi of the 4th and 5th toes. The tips of the toes are widened. The bony terminal phalanges of the fingers are T-shaped, those of the toes are simple. Precoracoid are present but poorly developed. The omosternum is absent, the sternum is cartilaginous. The transverse processes of the sacral vertebra are slightly widened.

Occurrence

The genus is endemic to Madagascar .

Systematics

The genus Scaphiophryne was first described by George Albert Boulenger in 1882 . A synonym is Pseudohemisus Mocquard, 1895. It comprises 9 species:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Hödl et al .: Families and subfamilies of the Froschlurche (Anura) and their species numbers according to DUELLMAN (1993). In: frogs, toads, toads. - From the world of amphibians. Stapfia. Volume 47, Linz 1996, pp. 269-271, PDF on ZOBODAT
  2. ↑ DATZ: Aquariums, terrariums. Volume 45, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, 1992, p. 469
  3. ^ Fritz Nieden: Anura II . In: FE Schulze, W. Kükenthal, K. Heider (Ed.): Das Tierreich . Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin and Leipzig 1926, p. 9.
  4. ^ A b Darrel R. Frost: Scaphiophryne Boulenger, 1882 . In: Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference . Version 6.0 (accessed February 17, 2014). ( online ).
  5. ↑ Rotes Marmorkrötchen , members of the Zoological Society for Species and Population Protection, Zoo Animal List, accessed on February 26, 2014
  6. ^ Hans-Joachim Herrmann: Terrariums Atlas 2. Frogs. Mergus Verlag, 2004, p. 1052 ISBN 3882440732
  7. ↑ Grünes Marmorkrötchen , Members of the Zoological Society for Species and Population Protection, Zoo Animal List, accessed on February 26, 2014
  8. ^ Hans-Joachim Herrmann: Terrariums Atlas 2. Frogs. Mergus Verlag, 2004, p. 1054 ISBN 3882440732
  9. ↑ Achille P. Raselimanana, Christopher J. Raxworthy, Franco Andreone, Frank Glaw & Miguel Vences. 2014. An Enigmatic New Scaphiophryne toadlet from the Rainforests of north-eastern Madagascar (Amphibia: Microhylidae). Vertebrate Zoology. 64 (1)
  10. ^ Prickly Marble Root , Members of the Zoological Society for Species and Population Protection, Zoo Animal List, accessed on February 26, 2014

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