Cochranella
| Cochranella | |
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| Cochranella euknemos | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Centrolenidae |
| Subfamily: | Centroleninae |
| Genus: | Cochranella Taylor, 1951 |
| Type species | |
| Centrolenella granulosa Taylor, 1949
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| Species | |
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8 species (see text) | |
Cochranella is a genus of glass frogs, family Centrolenidae. They are found in Central America from Honduras southward to the Amazonian and Andean cloud forests of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.[1]
Etymology[edit]
The generic name Cochranella honors Doris Mable Cochran, an American herpetologist.[2][3] Accordingly, common name Cochran frogs has been coined for the genus.[1]
Taxonomy and systematics[edit]
Cochranella was first described by Edward Harrison Taylor in 1951. The current delimitation of this genus follows from the work by Juan Manuel Guayasamin and his colleagues published in 2009[1][2] (with some later adjustments[4]). These authors remedied the polyphyly of the genus by partitioning it into several new genera.[1][2]
The diagnostic characteristics of the genus are the following: (1) humeral spines are absent (small spine present in C. litoralis); (2) digestive tract is white (translucent in Cochranella nola) and the lobed liver is covered by a transparent hepatic peritoneum; (3) ventral parietal peritoneum is white anteriorly and transparent posteriorly; (4) webbing between the fingers III–IV is moderate to extensive; (5) bones are green in life; (6) dorsum is lavender in preserved specimens; (7) dentigerous process of the vomer and vomerine teeth are present (absent in C. litoralis); (8) males call from the upper surfaces of leaves and females deposit eggs on the upper sides of leaves along streams; (9) quadratojugal bone is articulating with maxilla.[2]
Species[edit]
Currently eight species are placed in this genus:[1]
- Cochranella erminea Torres-Gastello, Suárez-Segovia, and Cisneros-Heredia, 2007
- Cochranella euknemos (Savage and Starrett, 1967)
- Cochranella granulosa (Taylor, 1949)
- Cochranella guayasamini Twomey, Delia, and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2014
- Cochranella litoralis (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1996)
- Cochranella mache Guayasamin and Bonaccorso, 2004
- Cochranella nola Harvey, 1996
- Cochranella resplendens (Lynch and Duellman, 1973)
The AmphibiaWeb lists 15 Cochranella species,[5] including ones that the Amphibian Species of the World considers as having uncertain placement within the subfamily Centroleninae (Incertae Sedis).[6]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Frost, Darrel R. (2023). "Cochranella Taylor, 1951". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
- ^ a b c d Guayasamin, J. M.; Castroviejo-Fisher, S.; Trueb, L.; Ayarzagüena, J.; Rada, M. & Vilà, C. (2009). "Phylogenetic systematics of glassfrogs (Amphibia: Centrolenidae) and their sister taxon Allophryne ruthveni". Zootaxa. 2100: 1–97. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2100.1.1. hdl:1808/13694.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael & Grayson, Michael (2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Pelagic Publishing. pp. 43–44. ISBN 978-1-907807-42-8.
- ^ Castroviejo-Fisher, Santiago; Guayasamin, Juan M.; Gonzalez-Voyer, Alejandro & Vilà, Carles (2014). "Neotropical diversification seen through glassfrogs" (PDF). Journal of Biogeography. 41 (1): 66–80. doi:10.1111/jbi.12208. hdl:10261/89113. (Rulyrana erminea renamed as Cochranella erminea)
- ^ "Centrolenidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2023. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
- ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2023). "Centroleninae Taylor, 1951". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
