- Amphibian Species of the World on Twitter
- What is the right name?
- Curator's blog
- Running log of additions and changes, 2023
- Logs of changes and additions, 2014–2022
- How to cite
- How to use
- History of the project, 1980 to 2023
- Comments on amphibian taxonomy relating to versions 3.0 to 6.1 (2004 to 2023)
- Scientific Nomenclature and Its Discontents
- Structure of the taxonomic records
- Contributors and reviewers for Amphibian Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (1985)
- Contributors, online editions
- Versions
- Museum abbreviations
- Links to useful amphibian systematic, conservation, collection management, informational, and/or regional sites
- Links to useful FREE library sites
- Copyright and terms of use
Sooglossus Boulenger, 1906
Sooglossus Boulenger, 1906, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 17: 321. Type species: Arthroleptis sechellensis Boettger, 1896, by original designation.
Nesomantis Boulenger, 1909, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Ser. 2, 12: 293. Type species: Nesomantis thomasseti Boulenger, 1909, by monotypy. Synonymy by Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 192.
English Names
Seychelles Frogs (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 136; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 114).
Thomasset's Frogs (Nesomantis [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 114).
Distribution
Mahé and Silhouette Islands, Seychelles, Indian Ocean.
Comment
Nussbaum, Jaslow, and Watson, 1982, J. Herpetol., 16: 198-203, and Green, Nussbaum, and Yang, 1988, Herpetologica, 44: 113-119, discussed phylogeny within this taxon and implied that Sooglossus is paraphyletic with respect to Nesomantis. Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 192, placed Nesomantis into the synonymy of Sooglossus to render a monophyletic Sooglossus, although Sooglossus was subsequently partitioned into Sechellophryne (including Nesomantis) and Sooglossus by Nussbaum and Wu, 2007, Zool. Stud., Taipei, 46: 322-335.
Contained taxa (2 sp.):
External links:
Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.
- For additional sources of information from other sites search Google
- For images search CalPhoto Images and Google Images
- To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
- For related information on conservation and images as well as observation see iNaturalist