Saddleback Toads
Brachycephalidae
The Brachycephalidae are a family of small frogs confined to cloud forests in southern Brazil. The family is composed of two externally quite different genera: the colourful and plump saddleback toads (Brachycephalus), and the slimmer and more drab genus Ischnocnema, with some species also ranging into northeast Argentina. The family is mainly defined by molecular characteristics, and are linked by few anatomical features. It was erected from two genera of the previously large family Eleutherodactylidae, which...
2 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 83 known species
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 24485.