Stefania

Taxonavigation
| Taxonavigation: Anura |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Hemiphractidae
Genus:
Species (23): S. ackawaio – S. ayangannae – S. breweri – S. coxi – S. evansi – S. ginesi – S. goini – S. imawari – S. lathropae – S. maccullochi – S. marahuaquensis – S. neblinae – S. oculosa – S. percristata – S. riae – S. riveroi – S. roraimae – S. satelles – S. scalae – S. schuberti – S. tamacuarina – S. upuigmae – S. woodleyi
Name
Stefania Rivero, 1968: 142
- Type species: Hyla evansi Boulenger, 1904, by original designation.
References
Primary references
- Rivero, J.A. [1966] 1968. Notes on the genus Cryptobatrachus (Amphibia, Salientia) with the description of a new race and four new species of a new genus of hylid frogs. Caribbean Journal of Science 6: 137–149.
Additional references
- MacCulloch, R.D. & Lathrop, A. 2002. Exceptional Diversity of Stefania (Anura: Hylidae) on Mount Ayanganna, Guyana: Three New Species and New Distribution Records. Herpetologica 58(3): 327–346. JSTOR
Reference page. - Kok, P.J.R., MacCulloch, R.D., Means, D.B., Roelants, K., Van Bocxlaer, I. & Bossuyt, F. 2012. Low genetic diversity in tepui summit vertebrates. Current Biology 22(15): R589–R590. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.06.034
Reference page. - Salerno, P.E., Ron, S.R., Señaris, J.C., Rojas-Runjaic, F.J.M., Noonan, B.P. & Cannatella, D.C. 2012. Ancient tepui summits harbor young rather than old lineages of endemic frogs. Evolution 66(10): 3000–3013. DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01666.x
Reference page. - Castroviejo-Fisher, S., Padial, J.M., De la Riva, I., Pombal, J.P. Jr., Silva, H.R., Rojas-Runjaic, F.J.M., Medina-Méndez, E. & Frost, D.R. 2015. Phylogenetic systematics of egg-brooding frogs (Anura: Hemiphractidae) and the evolution of direct development. Zootaxa 4004(1): 1–75. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4004.1.1
Reference page. - Kok, P.J.R., Russo, V.G., Ratz, S., Means, D.B., MacCulloch, R.D., Lathrop, A., Aubret, F. & Bossuyt, F. 2017. Evolution in the South American ‘Lost World’: insights from multilocus phylogeography of stefanias (Anura, Hemiphractidae, Stefania). Journal of Biogeography 44(1): 170–181. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12860
Reference page. - Kok, P.J.R. 2023. Out of sight, but not out of mind: A name for the Stefania (Anura: Hemiphractidae) from the summit of Murisipán-tepui (Bolívar State, Venezuela). Journal of Vertebrate Biology 72(23024): 1–16. DOI: 10.25225/jvb.23024
Reference page. - Kok, P.J.R. 2023. Bones and all: A new critically endangered Pantepui species of Stefania (Anura: Hemiphractidae) and a new osteological synapomorphy for the genus. Zoological Letters 9(11): 1–20. DOI: 10.1186/s40851-023-00209-6
Reference page. - Kok, P.J.R. 2024. Two new microendemic tepui-summit species of Stefania (Anura: Hemiphractidae). Zoological Letters 10(14): 1–21. DOI: 10.1186/s40851-024-00237-w
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Vernacular names
- English: Stefania Treefrogs