Psychrophrynella
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| Psychrophrynella | |
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| Psychrophrynella usurpator | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Strabomantidae |
| Subfamily: | Holoadeninae |
| Genus: | Psychrophrynella Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008[1] |
| Type species | |
| Phrynopus bagrecito Lynch, 1986 | |
| Diversity | |
| See text | |
Psychrophrynella is a genus of frogs in the family Strabomantidae[2] The genus is distributed on the Andes of southern Peru and Bolivia.[3] One of the four species assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is assessed as "Critically Endangered".[4]
The name Psychrophrynella is a contraction of the Greek psychros meaning cold and phrynos meaning toad, with the Greek diminutive suffix ella. It refers to their relatively cold habitats.[1]