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Cophixalus

Cophixalus
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Cophixalus ornatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Microhylidae
Subfamily: Genyophryninae
Genus: Cophixalus
Boettger, 1892
Species

61 species; See table.


61 species; See table.

Cophixalus (rainforest frogs or nursery frogs) is a genus of microhylid frogs. These are arboreal species with expanded toe-pads, endemic to Moluccan Islands, New Guinea and northeastern Queensland, Australia.

As of November 2013, Amphibian Species of the World assigns 61 species to Cophixalus. Included in this list are also C. aimbensis and C. sisyphus which are discussed in IUCN Red List but not in Amphibian Species of the World, and the newly described C. petrophilus.

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