Sooglossus

Sooglossus sechellensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

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: Sooglossidae
Genus: Sooglossus
Species (2): S. sechellensis – S. thomasseti

Name

Sooglossus Boulenger, 1906: 321

• Type species: Arthroleptis sechellensis Boettger, 1896, by original designation.

Synonyms

• Nesomantis Boulenger, 1909: 293 [synonymised by Frost et al. (2006: 192)]
  • Type species: Nesomantis thomasseti Boulenger, 1909, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Boulenger, G.A. 1906. Descriptions of new batrachians discovered by Mr. G.L. Bates in South Cameroon. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 7 17: 317–323. BHL
• Boulenger, G.A. 1909. A list of the freshwater fishes, batrachians and reptiles obtained by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner’s expedition to the Indian Ocean. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2nd series, Zoology 12: 291–300. BHL
• Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P.E., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–370. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5781 . Reference page. 

Additional references

• Labisko, J., Griffiths, R.A., Chong-Seng, L., Bunbury, N., Maddock, S.T., Bradfield, K.S., Taylor, M.L. & Groombridge, J.J. 2019. Endemic, endangered and evolutionarily significant: cryptic lineages in Seychelles’ frogs (Anura: Sooglossidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 126(3): 417–435. DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/bly183 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Seychelles Frogs