| Pithecopus | |
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| Pithecopus azureus, the type species | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Subfamily: | Phyllomedusinae |
| Genus: | Pithecopus Cope, 1866 |
| Type species | |
| Phyllomedusa azurea Cope, 1862 | |
| Species | |
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12 species (see text) | |
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Pithecopus is a genus of frogs in the subfamily Phyllomedusinae. Species of the genus Pithecopus are found in tropical South America east of the Andes, from southern Venezuela to northern Argentina. Resurrected from the synonymy of Phyllomedusa in 2016, it corresponds to the former Phyllomedusa hypochondrialis group. Its sister group is Callimedusa.
Etymology
The name of this genus is derived from the Greek pithekodes, which means "ape-like".
Description
Pithecopus are medium-sized frogs measuring about 45 mm (1.8 in) in snout–vent length. Toe I is much longer than toe II, and is opposable to it. No vomerine teeth are present. The tadpoles have a moderately small oral disc that is anteroventrally directed.
Species
There are 12 species in this genus:
- Pithecopus araguaius (Haga, Andrade, Bruschi, Recco-Pimentel, and Giaretta, 2017)
- Pithecopus ayeaye (Lutz, 1966)
- Pithecopus azureus (Cope, 1862)
- Pithecopus centralis (Bokermann, 1965)
- Pithecopus gonzagai (Andrade, Haga, Ferreira, Recco-Pimentel, Toledo, and Bruschi, 2020)
- Pithecopus hypochondrialis (Daudin, 1800)
- Pithecopus megacephalus (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926)
- Pithecopus nordestinus (Caramaschi, 2006)
- Pithecopus oreades (Brandão, 2002)
- Pithecopus palliatus (Peters, 1873)
- Pithecopus rohdei (Mertens, 1926)
- Pithecopus rusticus (Bruschi, Lucas, Garcia, and Recco-Pimentel, 2014)
The AmphibiaWeb lists only two species (Pithecopus araguaius and Pithecopus gonzagai), the rest being included in Phyllomedusa.
References
- ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2020). "Pithecopus Cope, 1866". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1. American Museum of Natural History. doi:10.5531/db.vz.0001. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ "Hylidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ Duellman, William E.; Marion, Angela B. & Hedges, S. Blair (2016). "Phylogenetics, classification, and biogeography of the treefrogs (Amphibia: Anura: Arboranae)". Zootaxa. 4104 (1): 1–109. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4104.1.1. PMID 27394762.
- Andrade, Felipe Silva de; Haga, Isabelle Aquemi; Ferreira, Johnny Sousa; Recco-Pimentel, Shirlei Maria; Toledo, Luís Felipe & Bruschi, Daniel Pacheco (2020). "A new cryptic species of Pithecopus (Anura, Phyllomedusidae) in north-eastern Brazil" (PDF). European Journal of Taxonomy. 723: 108–134. doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.723.1147.
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| Pithecopus | |