| Ptychadena | |
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| Ptychadena mascareniensis | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Class: | Amphibia | 
| Order: | Anura | 
| Family: | Ptychadenidae | 
| Genus: | Ptychadena Boulenger, 1917  | 
| Type species | |
| Rana mascareniensis Duméril and Bibron, 1841  | |
Ptychadena is a genus of frogs in the grassland frog family, Ptychadenidae.[1][2] They are distributed in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as nilotic Egypt. The common names of this genus are ridged frogs and grass frogs.[1] This type of family have many different characteristics such as the species, Ptychadena neumanni who have long hindlimbs and a large ear drum compared to the Ptychadena erlangeri, for example.[3] They also have a unique bone structure which is a fusion between the presacral vertebrae and sacrum.[4]
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus Ptychadena :[1]
- Ptychadena aequiplicata (Werner, 1898)
 - Ptychadena amharensis (Smith, Noonan, and Colston, 2017)
 - Ptychadena anchietae (Bocage, 1868)
 - Ptychadena ansorgii (Boulenger, 1905)
 - Ptychadena arnei (Perret, 1997)
 - Ptychadena baroensis (Smith, Noonan, and Colston, 2017)
 - Ptychadena beka (Goutte et al, 2021)
 - Ptychadena bibroni (Hallowell, 1845)
 - Ptychadena boettgeri (Pfeffer, 1893)
 - Ptychadena broadleyi Stevens, 1972
 - Ptychadena bunoderma (Boulenger, 1907)
 - Ptychadena christyi (Boulenger, 1919)
 - Ptychadena chrysogaster Laurent, 1954
 - Ptychadena cooperi (Parker, 1930)
 - Ptychadena doro (Goutte et al, 2021)
 - Ptychadena delphina (Goutte et al, 2021)
 - Ptychadena erlangeri (Ahl, 1924)
 - Ptychadena gansi Laurent In Gans, Laurent & Pandit, 1965
 - Ptychadena goweri Smith, Noonan, and Colston, 2017
 - Ptychadena grandisonae Laurent, 1954
 - Ptychadena guibei Laurent, 1954
 - Ptychadena harenna Largen, 1997
 - Ptychadena hylaea Schmidt and Inger, 1959
 - Ptychadena ingeri Perret, 1991
 - Ptychadena keilingi (Monard, 1937)
 - Ptychadena levenorum (Smith, Noonan, and Colston, 2017)
 - Ptychadena longirostris (Peters, 1870)
 - Ptychadena mahnerti Perret, 1996
 - Ptychadena mapacha Channing, 1993
 - Ptychadena mascareniensis (Duméril & Bibron, 1841)
 - Ptychadena mossambica (Peters, 1854)
 - Ptychadena mutinondoensis Channing and Willem, 2018
 - Ptychadena nana (Perret, 1980)
 - Ptychadena neumanni (Ahl, 1924)
 - Ptychadena newtoni (Bocage, 1886)
 - Ptychadena nilotica (Seetzen, 1855)
 - Ptychadena nuerensis Smith, Noonan, and Colston, 2017
 - Ptychadena obscura (Schmidt & Inger, 1959)
 - Ptychadena oxyrhynchus (Smith, 1849)
 - Ptychadena perplicata Laurent, 1964
 - Ptychadena perreti Guibé & Lamotte, 1958
 - Ptychadena porosissima (Steindachner, 1867)
 - Ptychadena pujoli Lamotte & Ohler, 1997
 - Ptychadena pumilio (Boulenger, 1920)
 - Ptychadena retropunctata (Angel, 1949)
 - Ptychadena robeensis (Goutte et al, 2021)
 - Ptychadena schillukorum (Werner, 1908)
 - Ptychadena stenocephala (Boulenger, 1901)
 - Ptychadena straeleni (Inger, 1968)
 - Ptychadena submascareniensis (Guibé & Lamotte, 1953)
 - Ptychadena subpunctata (Bocage, 1866)
 - Ptychadena superciliaris (Günther, 1858)
 - Ptychadena taenioscelis Laurent, 1954
 - Ptychadena tellinii (Peracca, 1904)
 - Ptychadena tournieri (Guibé & Lamotte, 1955)
 - Ptychadena trinodis (Boettger, 1881)
 - Ptychadena upembae (Schmidt & Inger, 1959)
 - Ptychadena uzungwensis (Loveridge, 1932)
 - Ptychadena wadei Largen, 2000
 
References
- 1 2 3 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Ptychadena Boulenger, 1917". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
 - ↑ "Ptychadena Boulenger, 1917". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
 - ↑ Goutte, Sandra; Reyes-Velasco, Jacobo; Freilich, Xenia; Kassie, Abeje; Boissinot, Stephane (2 November 2021). "Taxonomic revision of grass frogs (Ptychadenidae, Ptychadena) endemic to the Ethiopian highlands". ZooKeys (1016): 77–141. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1016.59699. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 7892535. PMID 33628080.
 - ↑ Blackburn, David C.; Roberts, Eric M.; Stevens, Nancy J. (4 March 2015). "The earliest record of the endemic African frog family Ptychadenidae from the Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of Tanzania". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (2): e907174. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.907174. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 53369792.
 
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