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Latonia (genus)

Latonia
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Latonia nigriventer
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Alytidae
Genus: Latonia
Meyer, 1843
Type species
Latonia seyfriedi
Meyer, 1843
Species

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Latonia is a genus of frogs in the family Alytidae (formerly Discoglossidae). It contains only one extant species (found in Israel and originally classified in the genus Discoglossus), though several fossil species are known from the Paleogene and Neogene periods (Upper Oligocene to Upper Pliocene) in Europe.


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