Phrynopus
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| Phrynopus | |
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| Phrynopus badius | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Strabomantidae |
| Subfamily: | Holoadeninae |
| Genus: | Phrynopus Peters, 1873 |
| Type species | |
| Phrynopus peruanus Peters, 1873 | |
| Diversity | |
| 35 species (see text) | |
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Phrynopus is a genus of frogs of the family Strabomantidae. Their common name is Andes frogs. They are endemic to Peru and inhabit the upper humid montane forest and supra-treeline grassland in the Cordillera Oriental, with one record from the Peruvian Cordillera Occidental.[1]
The contents and phylogenetic position of Phrynopus have long been uncertain,[1] and many species once included in this genus have now been moved to other genera (Bryophryne, Lynchius, Isodactylus (now Hypodactylus), Noblella, Niceforonia, and Psychrophrynella).[2] Hedges and colleagues placed it in 2008 in the family Strabomantidae, subfamily Strabomantinae.[2]
