Dryaderces
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| Dryaderces | |
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| Dryaderces inframaculata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Subfamily: | Lophyohylinae |
| Genus: | Dryaderces Jungfer et al., 2013[1] |
| Type species | |
| Hyla pearsoni Gaige, 1929 | |
| Species | |
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2 species (see text) | |
Dryaderces is a small genus of frogs in the family Hylidae.[2][3] Their known distribution is disjunct, with one species found in the upper Amazon Basin and lower Andean slopes between central Peru and Amazonian Bolivia, and another one in Pará, Brazil. Its sister taxon is Osteocephalus.[2] No phenotypic synapomorphies defining the genus are known.[1]
The generic name Dryaderces is derived from Ancient Greek dryad (=tree) and aderces (=unseen, invisible), thus meaning "unseen in a tree".[1]