Arthroleptella Explained

Arthroleptella is a genus of frogs known as moss frogs in the family Pyxicephalidae. The ten species of this genus are endemic to South Africa.

It contains the following species:^[1]

• Arthroleptella atermina Turner and Channing, 2017 - Riviersonderent moss frog
• Arthroleptella bicolor Hewitt, 1926 – Bainskloof moss frog
• Arthroleptella draconella Turner and Channing, 2017 – Drakenstein moss frog
• Arthroleptella drewesii Channing, Hendricks and Dawood, 1994 – Drewes' moss frog
• Arthroleptella kogelbergensis Turner and Channing, 2017 – Kogelsberg moss frog
• Arthroleptella landdrosia Dawood and Channing, 2000 – Landdros moss frog
• Arthroleptella lightfooti (Boulenger, 1910) – Lightfoot's moss frog
• Arthroleptella rugosa Turner and Channing, 2008 – Rough moss frog
• Arthroleptella subvoce Turner, de Villiers, Dawood and Channing, 2004 – Northern moss frog
• Arthroleptella villiersi Hewitt, 1935 – De Villiers' moss frog

Two other species were formerly classified as Arthroleptella before recently found to belong to the formerly monotypic genus Anhydrophryne (Dawood and Stam 2006):^{[2] [3]}

• Arthroleptella hewitti → Anhydrophryne hewitti (FitzSimons, 1947) – Hewitt's moss frog
• Arthroleptella ngongoniensis → Anhydrophryne ngongoniensis (Bishop and Passmore, 1993) – Ngoni moss frog

Notes and References

1. Web site: Arthroleptella Hewitt, 1926 . Frost, Darrel R. . 2014 . Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 . American Museum of Natural History . 18 January 2014.
2. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group . 2013 . Anhydrophryne hewitti . 2013 . e.T58059A3064127 . 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T58059A3064127.en . 17 November 2021.
3. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. . South African Frog Re-assessment Group . SA-FRoG . 2016 . Anhydrophryne ngongoniensis . 2016 . e.T58062A77157706 . 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T58062A77157706.en . 17 November 2021.