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Centroleninae Taylor, 1951

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Centrolenidae > Subfamily: Centroleninae

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Centrolenidae Taylor, 1951, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 64: 36. Type genus: Centrolene Jiménez de la Espada, 1872.

Centroleninae — Barrio, 1968, Physis, Buenos Aires, 28: 165-169. Lutz, 1969, Acta Zool. Lilloana, 24: 276; Rueda-Almonacid, 1994, Trianea, 5: 134.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Tropical Central America south and east from Honduras, tropical Andes, Cordillera de la Costa of Venezuela, Guiana Shield, Amazon Basin, and Atlantic Forest of Brazil.

Comment

The content of this subfamily follows Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 1-97, who reported on the phylogenetics of the group.

Contained taxa

  • "Centrolene" acanthidiocephalum (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1989)
  • "Centrolene" audax (Lynch and Duellman, 1973)
  • "Centrolene" azulae (Flores and McDiarmid, 1989)
  • "Centrolene" balionota (Duellman, 1981)
  • "Centrolene" durrellorum Cisneros-Heredia, 2007
  • "Centrolene" fernandoi Duellman and Schulte, 1993
  • "Centrolene" guanacarum Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1995
  • "Centrolene" medemi (Cochran and Goin, 1970)
  • "Centrolene" petrophilum Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991
  • "Centrolene" quindianum Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1995
  • "Centrolene" robledoi Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1995
  • "Cochranella" adenocheira Harvey and Noonan, 2005
  • "Cochranella" croceopodes Duellman and Schulte, 1993
  • "Cochranella" duidaeana (Ayarzagüena, 1992)
  • "Cochranella" euhystrix (Cadle and McDiarmid, 1990)
  • "Cochranella" geijskesi (Goin, 1966)
  • "Cochranella" megista (Rivero, 1985)
  • "Cochranella" ramirezi Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991
  • "Cochranella" riveroi (Ayarzagüena, 1992)
  • "Cochranella" xanthocheridia Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1995
  • Cochranella" croceopodes Duellman and Schulte, 1993
  • Centrolene Jiménez de la Espada, 1872 (26 sp.)
  • Chimerella Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009 (1 sp.)
  • Cochranella Taylor, 1951 (8 sp.)
  • Espadarana Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009 (3 sp.)
  • Nymphargus Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007 (35 sp.)
  • Rulyrana Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009 (9 sp.)
  • Sachatamia Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009 (3 sp.)
  • Teratohyla Taylor, 1951 (4 sp.)
  • Vitreorana Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009 (8 sp.)

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