Occidozyga

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Occidozyga
Java swimming frog (Occidozyga lima)

Java swimming frog ( Occidozyga lima )

Systematics
Order : Frog (anura)
Subordination : Neobatrachia
Family : Dicroglossidae
Subfamily : Occidozyginae
Genre : Occidozyga
Scientific name
Occidozyga
Kuhl & Van Hasselt , 1822

Occidozyga is a genus of frogs from the Dicroglossidae family ; it used to be part of the real frog family. The genus is mainly represented in Southeast Asia .

description

The type specimen of the genus Occidozyga , the Java swimming frog , was referred to in the brief first description by Heinrich Kuhl and Johan Coenraad van Hasselt in 1822 because of "its completely oval shape" as an oval toad. In the opinion of these researchers, the new genus was "a middle ground" between the frogs (genus Rana ) and the toads (genus Bufo ). The toes of all species of the genus are very slender and connected by a web of webs, which gives them good swimming ability.

distribution

The frog genus Occidozyga is widespread from eastern India through Southeast Asia to southern China and Indonesia . It occurs from the Indian province of West Bengal via Bangladesh , Myanmar , Thailand , Cambodia , Laos , Vietnam and Malaysia to the southern Chinese provinces of Yunnan , Guangxi , Guangdong , Hainan , Jiangxi and Fujian . The genus Sumatra , Sulawesi and Java is known on the Indonesian islands . It is also found on some islands in the Philippines , such as Mindoro and Mindanao .

Systematics and taxonomy

Heinrich Kuhl and Johan Coenraad van Hasselt sent their research reports, written in letters, from the Dutch Indies to the naturalists Coenraad Jacob Temminck , Theodorus van Swinderen and Wilhem de Haan in Leiden , where they found the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (today " Naturalis ") concerned. The letters contained a variety of newly written animal and plant genera and species from Java, including the genus Occidocyga . Only after Heinrich Kuhl's death in 1821 could these letters be published in German in the interdisciplinary academic journals Algemene Konsten Letter-Bode and Isis von Oken . Johan Coenraad van Hasselt died in 1823. It was not until 1829 that Carl Gravenhorst in Breslau described the frog species from Java under the name Rana lima , which served as the basis for the brief description of the genus Occidozyga . This was assigned to the genus in 1925 by Leonhard Hess Stejneger . Due to a description by Johann Jakob von Tschudi from 1838, the genus was known for a long time under the name Oxyglossus , but this had to be abandoned because a bird genus had been described by William Swainson ten years earlier under the same name . Most of the species in the genus Occidozyga were in the genus Phrynoglossus for some time , but this was merged with Occidozyga in 1996 .

species

The genus includes 12 species:

As of March 16, 2020

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Heinrich Kuhl and Johan Coenraad van Hasselt: From a letter by Dr. Kuhl and Dr. Van Hasselt from Java, to Professor Th. Van Swinberen zu Gronigen. Isis von Oken 10, pp. 472-476. 1822, p. 475 (German).
  2. ↑ a b J. J. von Tschudi: Classification of the Batrachians with consideration of the fossil animals of this division of the reptiles. Petitpierre, Neuchâtel 1838, p. 48.
  3. ^ A b Darrel R. Frost: Occidozyga Kuhl and Van Hasselt, 1822 . In: Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1 . American Museum of Natural History, New York. 2020. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  4. ^ Clifford Hillhouse Pope : Notes on amphibians from Fukien, Hainan, and other parts of China. Bulletin of the AMNH, 61, 8, pp. 397-611, New York 1931, pp. 481-484.
  5. ↑ a b D. T. Iskandar, U. Arifin & A. Rachmanasah: A new frog (Anura, Dicroglossidae), related to Occidozyga semipalmata Smith, 1927, from the eastern Peninsula of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 59, pp. 219-228, Singapore 2011.
  6. ^ Heinrich Kuhl and Johan Coenraad van Hasselt : Uittreksels uit breieven van de Heeren Kuhl en van Hasselt, aan de Heeren CJ Temminck, Th. Van Swinderen en W. de Haan. Algemeene Konst- en Letter-Bode, 1822, 1, pp. 99-104, 1822, p. 103.
  7. ^ A b Leonhard Stejneger : Chinese amphibians and reptiles in the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 66, pp. 1-115, 1925, pp. 33-34 (Dutch).
  8. ↑ RF Inger: Commentary on a proposed classification of the family Ranidae. Herpetologica, 52, pp. 241-246, 1996.
  9. ↑ Dicroglossidae . In: AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application] . Amphibia Web, Berkeley. 2014. Accessed March 16, 2020.
  10. ^ Albert CLG Günther, 1858. New Batrachier in the collection of the British Museum. Archive for Natural History, 24, pp. 319–328, Berlin 1858.

literature

  • Heinrich Kuhl & Johan Coenraad van Hasselt : Uittreksels uit breieven van de Heeren Kuhl en van Hasselt, aan de Heeren CJ Temminck, Th. Van Swinderen en W. de Haan. Algemeene Konst- en Letter-Bode, 7, pp. 99-104, 1822, p. 103 (Dutch).
  • Heinrich Kuhl and Coenrad van Hasselt: From a letter by Dr. Kuhl and Dr. Van Hasselt from Java, to Professor Th. Van Swinberen zu Gronigen. Isis von Oken , 10, pp. 472-476, 1822, p. 475 (German).
  • Clifford Hillhouse Pope : Notes on amphibians from Fukien, Hainan, and other parts of China. Bulletin of the AMNH, 61, 8, pp. 397-611, New York 1931, pp. 481-484.

Web links

Commons : Occidozyga  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Darrel R. Frost: Occidozyga Kuhl and Van Hasselt, 1822 . Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1. American Museum of Natural History, New York 1998-2020, accessed May 26, 2020.
  • Dicroglossidae . Amphibiaweb, species list of the family Dicroglossidae, accessed on May 26, 2020.