Sechellophryne pipilodryas

Taxonavigation edit

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

Sechellophryne pipilodryas (Gerlach & Willi, 2002)

Holotype: UMZ 2001.1.1, adult ♀, collected by J. Gerlach, R. Gerlach and J. Willi on 9 August 2000.
Type locality: “Mon Plaisir (in Phoenicophorium borsigianum axil, below Mt Dauban at approximately 700 m altitude), Silhouette, Seychelles”.

Sooglossus pipilodryas Gerlach & Willi, 2003: 452 [original combination]
Sechellophryne pipilodryas — Nussbaum & Wu, 2007: 327 [subsequent combination]
Leptosooglossus pipilodryas — Van der Meijden, Boistel, Gerlach, Ohler, Vences & Meyer, 2007: 355 [subsequent combination]

Gerlach, J. & Willi, J. 2002. A new species of frog, genus Sooglossus (Anura, Sooglossidae) from Silhouette Island, Seychelles. Amphibia-Reptilia 23(4): 445–458. DOI: 10.1163/15685380260462356 Reference page.
Nussbaum, R.A. & Wu, S.-H. 2007. Morphological assessments and phylogenetic relationships of the Seychellean frogs of the family Sooglossidae (Amphibia: Anura). Zoological Studies 46(3): 322–335. PDF Reference page.
Van der Meijden, A., Boistel, R., Gerlach, J., Ohler, A., Vences, M. & Meyer, A. 2007. Molecular phylogenetic evidence for paraphyly of the genus Sooglossus, with the description of a new genus of Seychellean frogs. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 91(3): 347–359. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00800.x Reference page.

IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2013. IUCN: Sechellophryne pipilodryas (Critically Endangered). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T59048A15435789. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T59048A15435789.en. Accessed on 16 November 2022.

English: Seychelles Palm Frog