Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Amphibia
Subclassis: Lissamphibia
Ordo: Anura
Familia: Ptychadenidae
Genus: Ptychadena
Species: P. aequiplicata – P. anchietae – P. ansorgii – P. arnei – P. bibroni – P. boettgeri – P. broadleyi – P. bunoderma – P. christyi – P. chrysogaster – P. cooperi – P. erlangeri – P. filwoha – P. gansi – P. grandisonae – P. guibei – P. harenna – P. hylaea – P. ingeri – P. keilingi – P. longirostris – P. mahnerti – P. mapacha – P. mascareniensis – P. mossambica – P. mutinondoensis – P. nana – P. neumanni – P. newtoni – P. obscura – P. oxyrhynchus – P. perplicata – P. perreti – P. porosissima – P. pujoli – P. pumilio – P. retropunctata – P. schillukorum – P. stenocephala – P. straeleni – P. submascareniensis – P. subpunctata – P. superciliaris – P. taenioscelis – P. tellinii – P. tournieri – P. trinodis – P. upembae – P. uzungwensis – P. wadei
Name
Ptychadena Boulenger, 1917
Type species: Rana mascareniensis Duméril & Bibron, 1841
Synonyms
Limnophilus Fitzinger, 1843
Ptychadena Boulenger, 1917
Ptychadaena — Parker, 1930
Abrana Parker, 1931
Parkerana Dubois, 1984
References
Boulenger, 1917, C. R. Seances Soc. Biol., Paris, 165: 988.
Channing, A. & Willems, F. 2018. A new grass frog with rupicolous tadpoles from northern Zambia (Anura: Ptychadenidae). Zootaxa 4462(3): 349–366. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4462.3.3 Paywall Reference page.
Dehling, J.M.; Sinsch, U. 2013: Diversity of Ptychadena in Rwanda and taxonomic status of P. chrysogaster Laurent, 1954 (Amphibia, Anura, Ptychadenidae). ZooKeys, 356: 69–102. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.356.5878 Reference page.
Goutte, S., Reyes-Velasco, J., Freilich, X., Kassie, A. & Boissinot, S. 2021. Taxonomic revision of grass frogs (Ptychadenidae, Ptychadena) endemic to the Ethiopian highlands. ZooKeys 1016: 77–141. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1016.59699 Open access Reference page.
Reyes-Velasco, J., Goutte, S., Freilich, X. & Boissinot, S. 2021. Mitogenomics of historical type specimens clarifies the taxonomy of Ethiopian Ptychadena Boulenger, 1917 (Anura, Ptychadenidae). ZooKeys 1070ː 135–149. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1070.66598 Open access Reference page.
Sánchez-Vialas, A., Calvo-Revuelta, M. & Márquez, R. 2017. Ptychadena in Mauritania and the first record of Ptychadena schillukorum. ZooKeys 673: 125—133. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.673.10265. Reference page.
Links
Amphibian Species of the World 5.1 Ptychadena access date 26 June 2008
Vernacular names
English: Grassland Frogs
Ptychadena is a genus of frogs in the grassland frog family, Ptychadenidae.[1][2] They are distributed in Sub-Saharan Africa as well as nilotic Egypt. The common names of this genus are ridged frogs and grass frogs.[1]
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus Ptychadena :[1]
Ptychadena aequiplicata (Werner, 1898)
Ptychadena amharensis (Smith, Noonan, and Colston, 2017)
Ptychadena anchietae (Bocage, 1868)
Ptychadena ansorgii (Boulenger, 1905)
Ptychadena arnei (Perret, 1997)
Ptychadena baroensis (Smith, Noonan, and Colston, 2017)
Ptychadena beka (Goutte et al, 2021)
Ptychadena bibroni (Hallowell, 1845)
Ptychadena boettgeri (Pfeffer, 1893)
Ptychadena broadleyi Stevens, 1972
Ptychadena bunoderma (Boulenger, 1907)
Ptychadena christyi (Boulenger, 1919)
Ptychadena chrysogaster Laurent, 1954
Ptychadena cooperi (Parker, 1930)
Ptychadena doro (Goutte et al, 2021)
Ptychadena delphina (Goutte et al, 2021)
Ptychadena erlangeri (Ahl, 1924)
Ptychadena gansi Laurent In Gans, Laurent & Pandit, 1965
Ptychadena goweri Smith, Noonan, and Colston, 2017
Ptychadena grandisonae Laurent, 1954
Ptychadena guibei Laurent, 1954
Ptychadena harenna Largen, 1997
Ptychadena hylaea Schmidt and Inger, 1959
Ptychadena ingeri Perret, 1991
Ptychadena keilingi (Monard, 1937)
Ptychadena levenorum (Smith, Noonan, and Colston, 2017)
Ptychadena longirostris (Peters, 1870)
Ptychadena mahnerti Perret, 1996
Ptychadena mapacha Channing, 1993
Ptychadena mascareniensis (Duméril & Bibron, 1841)
Ptychadena mossambica (Peters, 1854)
Ptychadena mutinondoensis Channing and Willem, 2018
Ptychadena nana (Perret, 1980)
Ptychadena neumanni (Ahl, 1924)
Ptychadena newtoni (Bocage, 1886)
Ptychadena nilotica (Seetzen, 1855)
Ptychadena nuerensis Smith, Noonan, and Colston, 2017
Ptychadena obscura (Schmidt & Inger, 1959)
Ptychadena oxyrhynchus (Smith, 1849)
Ptychadena perplicata Laurent, 1964
Ptychadena perreti Guibé & Lamotte, 1958
Ptychadena porosissima (Steindachner, 1867)
Ptychadena pujoli Lamotte & Ohler, 1997
Ptychadena pumilio (Boulenger, 1920)
Ptychadena retropunctata (Angel, 1949)
Ptychadena robeensis (Goutte et al, 2021)
Ptychadena schillukorum (Werner, 1908)
Ptychadena stenocephala (Boulenger, 1901)
Ptychadena straeleni (Inger, 1968)
Ptychadena submascareniensis (Guibé & Lamotte, 1953)
Ptychadena subpunctata (Bocage, 1866)
Ptychadena superciliaris (Günther, 1858)
Ptychadena taenioscelis Laurent, 1954
Ptychadena tellinii (Peracca, 1904)
Ptychadena tournieri (Guibé & Lamotte, 1955)
Ptychadena trinodis (Boettger, 1881)
Ptychadena upembae (Schmidt & Inger, 1959)
Ptychadena uzungwensis (Loveridge, 1932)
Ptychadena wadei Largen, 2000
References
Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Ptychadena Boulenger, 1917". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
"Ptychadena Boulenger, 1917". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
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