Vitreorana is a genus of glass frogs that are native to South America, from the Atlantic Forest of Brazil and Argentina to the Amazon rainforest of Colombia and Ecuador and to the Venezuelan Coastal Range and the Guianas. One way one can tell this type of glass frog from others is through their green bones, lavender-colored dorsal, and white highlighted pigment. This genus has also started to become endangered, especially in Brazil, where many Vitreorana, such as V. eurygnatha due to habitat loss.
| Vitreorana | |
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| Vitreorana eurygnatha | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Centrolenidae |
| Subfamily: | Centroleninae |
| Genus: | Vitreorana (Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009) |
| Type species | |
| Centrolenella antisthenesi (Goin, 1963)
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| Diversity | |
| 9 species (see text) | |
The following species are recognised in the genus Vitreorana:[2][3]
- Vitreorana antisthenesi (Goin, 1963)
- Vitreorana baliomma (Pontes, Caramaschi, and Pombal, 2014)
- Vitreorana castroviejoi (Ayarzagüena and Señaris, 1997)
- Vitreorana eurygnatha (Lutz, 1925)
- Vitreorana franciscana (Santana, Barros, Pontes, and Feio, 2015)
- Vitreorana gorzulae (Ayarzagüena, 1992)
- Vitreorana helenae (Ayarzagüena, 1992)
- Vitreorana parvula (Boulenger, 1895)
- Vitreorana ritae (Lutz, 1952)
- Vitreorana uranoscopa (Müller, 1924)
References
edit- ^ Vinícius de Mira-Mendes, Caio; Ruas, Danilo Silva; Manoel de Oliveira, Renan; Maria Castro, Indira; Ribeiro Dias, Iuri; Ernesto Baumgarten, Julio; Acuña Juncá, Flora; Solé, Mirco (2018-04-26). "Amphibians of the Reserva Ecológica Michelin: a high diversity site in the lowland Atlantic Forest of southern Bahia, Brazil". ZooKeys (753): 1–21. doi:10.3897/zookeys.753.21438. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 5934352. PMID 29731680.
- ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2015). "Vitreorana Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ "Centrolenidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2015. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ Santana, Diego José; Barros, Ana Bárbara; Pontes, Rafael; Feio, Renato Neves (December 2015). "A New Species of Glassfrog Genus Vitreorana (Anura, Centrolenidae) from the Cerrado Domain, Southeastern Brazil". Herpetologica. 71 (4): 289–298. doi:10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-14-00066. ISSN 0018-0831. S2CID 86764923.