Centroleninae
| Centroleninae | |
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| Centrolene buckleyi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Centrolenidae |
| Subfamily: |
Centroleninae Taylor, 1951 |
| Type genus | |
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Centrolene Jiménez de la Espada, 1872 |
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| Diversity | |
| 9 genera (see text) | |
Centroleninae is one of two subfamilies of the Centrolenidae family. It has nine genera distributed in Central America from Honduras south and east to northern and central South America. As of mid 2015, it cointains 117 species.
Centroleninae are defined based on molecular and morphological characteristics, none of which are obviuos to a naked eye. However, in several species a fighting behaviour that might be synapomorphy has been observed: males dangle by their feet and grapple venter-to-venter; amplexus-like or wrestling on leaves fighting of Hyalinobatrachinae is hypothesized to be primitive behaviour. Their sister taxon is ambiguous, it is either genus Ikakogi or subfamily Hyalinobatrachinae.
There are nine genera:
Several species have uncertain generic placement and are placed in Centroleninae Incertae Sedis, awaiting for more information:
The AmphibiaWeb includes Ikakogi Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009 in this subfamily, whereas it is not included in any subfamily in the Amphibian Species of the World.
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