Niceforonia

Niceforonia adenobrachia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Brachycephaloidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Orthokaryota Cladus: Neokaryota Cladus: Scotokaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Superordo: Batrachia Cladus: Salientia Ordo: Anura Superfamilia: Brachycephaloidea

Familia: Craugastoridae
Subfamilia: Hypodactylinae
Genus: Niceforonia
Species (18): N. adenobrachia – N. aderca – N. araiodactyla – N. babax – N. brunnea – N. columbiana – N. dolops – N. dracula – N. elassodiscus – N. fallaciosa – N. latens – N. lucida – N. mantipus – N. nana – N. nigrovittata – N. peraccai – N. quilloturo – N. tempestuosa

Name

Niceforonia Goin & Cochran, 1963: 499

• Type species: Niceforonia nana Goin & Cochran, 1963, by original designation.

Synonyms

• Isodactylus Hedges, Duellman & Heinicke, 2008: 108 [nomen praeoccupatum pro Isodactylus Gray, 1845]
  • Type species: Eleutherodactylus elassodiscus Lynch, 1973, by original designation.

• Hypodactylus Hedges, Duellman & Heinicke, 2008: 67 [nomen novum for Isodactylus Hedges, Duellman & Heinicke, 2008; synonymised by Acosta-Galvis, Streicher, Manuelli, Cuddy & de Sá (2018: 494)]

References

Primary references

• Goin, C.J. & Cochran, D.M. 1963. Two new genera of leptodactylid frogs from Colombia. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series 31: 499–505.
• Hedges, S.B., Duellman, W.E. & Heinicke, M.P. 2008. New World direct-developing frogs (Anura: Terrarana): molecular phylogeny, classification, biogeography, and conservation. Zootaxa 1737(1): 1–182. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1737.1.1 Reference page. 
• Hedges, S.B., Duellman, W.E. & Heinicke, M.P. 2008. A replacement name for Isodactylus Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008. Zootaxa 1795(1): 67–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1795.1.5 Reference page. 
• Acosta-Galvis, A.R., Streicher, J.W., Manuelli, L., Cuddy, T. & Sá, R.O. de 2018. Molecular insights into the phylogenetic placement of the poorly known genus Niceforonia Goin & Cochran, 1963 (Anura: Brachycephaloidea). Zootaxa 4514(4): 487–500. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.4.3 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Ospina-Sarria, J.J., Rodríguez-Betancourt, A.F., Gómez-Sepúlveda, X., Morales-Vertel, I.D., Vélez-Franco, V., Gallego-Posada, N., Herrera-Rengifo, J.D., Escobar, J.E.G., Ceballos-Castro, I., García-Gómez, I., Velásquez-Trujillo, D.A., Baez, A.S.O. & Narvaez, J.M. 2026. A new species of Niceforonia (Amphibia, Anura, Strabomantidae) from the Serranía de los Paraguas, Colombia, with the description of a new phenotypic synapomorphy for the Niceforonia nigrovittata species group. ZooKeys 1289: 159–184. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1289.198411 Reference page. 
• Reyes-Puig, J. P., Yánez-Muñoz, M. H., Urgilés-Merchán, M., Libke, Z., Ron, S. R. & Carrión-Olmedo, J. C. 2026. Two new terrestrial narrow-toed frogs (Niceforonia: Strabomantidae, Anura) from remote unexplored mountains in the Ecuadorian Andes. PeerJ 14: e21182. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.21182 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

• English: Andes Frog