Bryophryne facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Bryophryne |
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| A Bryophryne cophites frog | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Strabomantidae |
| Subfamily: | Holoadeninae |
| Genus: | Bryophryne Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008 |
| Type species | |
| Phrynopus cophites Lynch, 1975
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| Diversity | |
| 13 species (see text) | |
Bryophryne is a group of small frogs. They belong to a frog family called Strabomantidae. These special frogs live only in south-eastern Peru. You can find them mainly in the Cusco Region. There might also be another type in the Puno Region. The Apurímac River valley separates where Bryophryne frogs live from another group of frogs called Phrynopus.
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About Bryophryne Frogs
Scientists named the group Bryophryne in 2008. They created this new group for two types of frogs that used to be in the Phrynopus group. This helped scientists better organize and understand these different kinds of frogs.
What Bryophryne Frogs Look Like
Bryophryne frogs are usually quite small. The biggest one, Bryophryne cophites, is about 29.3 mm (1.15 in) long from its nose to its bottom. This is less than an inch!
Their head is narrower than their body. These frogs do not have a visible eardrum (called a tympanic membrane). They also don't have the inner ear parts that help other animals hear.
Their back (called the dorsum) feels a bit bumpy. Their belly (called the venter) feels even bumpier.
Species of Bryophryne
There are currently 13 known types of frogs in the Bryophryne group. Here are some of them:
- Bryophryne abramalagae Lehr and Catenazzi, 2010
- Bryophryne bakersfield Chaparro, Padial, Gutiérrez, and De la Riva, 2015
- Bryophryne bustamantei (Chaparro, De la Riva, Padial, Ochoa, and Lehr, 2007)
- Bryophryne cophites (Lynch, 1975)
- Bryophryne hanssaueri Lehr and Catenazzi, 2009
- Bryophryne nubilosus Lehr and Catenazzi, 2008
- Bryophryne phuyuhampatu Catenazzi, Ttito, Diaz and Shepack, 2017
- Bryophryne quellokunka De la Riva, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, and Padial, 2017
- Bryophryne tocra De la Riva, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, and Padial, 2017
- Bryophryne wilakunka De la Riva, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, and Padial, 2017
- Bryophryne zonalis Lehr and Catenazzi, 2009
Some frogs that used to be called Bryophryne have been moved to a new group. This new group is called Qosqophryne. Scientists moved them after studying their family tree. They found that Qosqophryne frogs are more closely related to Microkayla, Noblella, and Psychrophrynella frogs than to other Bryophryne frogs.
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