Arthroleptis is a genus of frogs in the family Arthroleptidae found in tropical sub-Saharan Africa.[1][2] Their common names include screeching frogs, sometimes simply squeakers.[1]
Description
These species are terrestrial breeding, with direct development (metamorphosis to froglets occurs within the egg). Many species in this genus are small, or very small, frogs with a minimum adult size of 15 mm (0.59 in) snout-vent length.[3] The largest species (Arthroleptis nikeae and Arthroleptis tanneri) reach body lengths around 55 mm (2.2 in). It was hypothesized that small species evolved from larger ones, but in fact the opposite seems to be case.[2]
Arthroleptis species are terrestrial leaf-litter frogs that feed on a range of terrestrial arthropods, such as ants and termites.[2]
Species
Forty-seven[1] to 49[4] species are known; this list follows the Amphibian Species of the World:[1]
Common name Binomial name Foulassi screeching frog
Arthroleptis adelphus Perret, 1966 Rugegewald screeching frog
Arthroleptis adolfifriederici Nieden, 1911 Ahl's squeaker
Arthroleptis affinis Ahl, 1939 Arthroleptis anotis Loader, Poynton, Lawson, Blackburn, and Menegon, 2011 Freetown long-fingered frog
Arthroleptis aureoli (Schiøtz, 1964) Arthroleptis bioko Blackburn, 2010 Tumbo-Insel screeching frog
Arthroleptis bivittatus Müller, 1885 Togo screeching frog
Arthroleptis brevipes Ahl, 1924 Carqueja's squeaker
Arthroleptis carquejai Ferreira, 1906 Guinea screeching frog
Arthroleptis crusculum Angel, 1950 Arthroleptis fichika Blackburn, 2009 Arthroleptis formosus Rödel, Kouamé, Doumbia, and Sandberger, 2011 Ruo River screeching frog
Arthroleptis francei Loveridge, 1953 Itombwe screeching frog
Arthroleptis hematogaster (Laurent, 1954) Arthroleptis kidogo Blackburn, 2009 Krokosua squeaking frog,
Giant squeaker frog
Arthroleptis krokosua Ernst, Agyei, and Rödel, 2008 Arthroleptis kutogundua Blackburn, 2012 Lameer's squeaker
Arthroleptis lameerei De Witte, 1921 Lonnberg's squeaker
Arthroleptis langeri Rödel, Doumbia, Johnson, and Hillers, 2009 Loveridge's screeching frog
Arthroleptis loveridgei De Witte, 1933 Mosso screeching frog
Arthroleptis mossoensis (Laurent, 1954) Arthroleptis nguruensis Poynton, Menegon, and Loader, 2009 Nike's squeaker
Arthroleptis nikeae Poynton, 2003 Mount Nimba screeching frog
Arthroleptis nimbaensis Angel, 1950 Arthroleptis nlonakoensis (Plath, Herrmann, and Böhme, 2006) Arthroleptis palava Blackburn, Gvoždík, and Leaché, 2010 Arthroleptis perreti Blackburn, Gonwouo, Ernst, and Rödel, 2009 Lomami screeching frog
Arthroleptis phrynoides (Laurent, 1976) Mottled squeaker
Arthroleptis poecilonotus Peters, 1863 Kivu screeching frog
Arthroleptis pyrrhoscelis Laurent, 1952 Reiche's squeaker
Arthroleptis reichei Nieden, 1911 Schubotz's squeaker
Arthroleptis schubotzi Nieden, 1911 Tanganyika screeching frog
Arthroleptis spinalis Boulenger, 1919 Common squeaker
Arthroleptis stenodactylus Pfeffer, 1893 Kambai squeaker
Arthroleptis stridens (Pickersgill, 2007) Forest screeching frog
Arthroleptis sylvaticus (Laurent, 1954) Striped screeching frog
Arthroleptis taeniatus Boulenger, 1906 Tanzania screeching frog
Arthroleptis tanneri Grandison, 1983 Cave squeaker
Arthroleptis troglodytes Poynton, 1963 Rainforest screeching frog
Arthroleptis tuberosus Andersson, 1905 Buea screeching frog
Arthroleptis variabilis Matschie, 1893 Mwana screeching frog
Arthroleptis vercammeni (Laurent, 1954) Arthroleptis wageri FitzSimons, 1930 Wahlberg's humus Frog
Arthroleptis wahlbergii Smith, 1849 Plain squeaker
Arthroleptis xenochirus Boulenger, 1905 Dwarf squeaker
Arthroleptis xenodactyloides Hewitt, 1933 Eastern squeaker
Arthroleptis xenodactylus Boulenger, 1909 Zimmer's screeching frog
Arthroleptis zimmeri (Ahl, 1925) References
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^ a b c d Frost, Darrel R. (2015). "Arthroleptis Smith, 1849". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
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^ a b c Blackburn, D. (2008). "Biogeography and evolution of body size and life history of African frogs: Phylogeny of squeakers (Arthroleptis) and long-fingered frogs (Cardioglossa) estimated from mitochondrial data". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 49 (3): 806–826. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.08.015. PMID 18804169.
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^ Blackburn, David C. (March 2011). "Family Arthroleptidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2016. Berkeley, California. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
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^ "Arthroleptidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2016.