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Nymphargus

Nymphargus
Nymphargus rosada03.jpg
Nymphargus rosada
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Centrolenidae
Subfamily: Centroleninae
Genus: Nymphargus
Cisneros-Heredia & McDiarmid, 2007
Species

36 species


36 species

Nymphargus is a relatively newly established (2007) genus of glass frogs in subfamily Centroleninae. They are distributed in the Andean slopes of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. They are characterized by lacking webbing among the outer fingers, lacking humeral spines in adult males, and having a lobed liver covered by a transparent hepatic peritoneum.

Most species have been recently moved here from Cochranella. As of 2014, the genus contains 36 species:



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