Latonia (frog)

Latonia
Temporal range: Oligocene–Present
Latonia nigriventer
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Alytidae
Genus: Latonia
Meyer, 1843
Type species
Latonia seyfriedi
Meyer, 1843
Species

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Latonia is a genus of frogs in the family Alytidae (formerly Discoglossidae). It contains only one extant species, the Hula painted frog[1] which is endemic to Israel and was originally classified in the genus Discoglossus,[2] though several fossil species are known from the Paleogene and Neogene periods (Upper Oligocene to Early Pleistocene) spanning across Europe.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Latonia Meyer, 1843". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  2. ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Latonia nigriventer (Mendelssohn and Steinitz, 1943)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  3. ^ Villa, Andrea; Delfino, Massimo; Luján, Àngel H.; Almécija, Sergio; Alba, David M. (2019-03-16). "First record of Latonia gigantea (Anura, Alytidae) from the Iberian Peninsula". Historical Biology. 31 (3): 371–382. doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1371712. hdl:2318/1647233. ISSN 0891-2963. S2CID 134748481.
  4. ^ Rocek, Z. (1994). "Taxonomy and distribution of Tertiary discoglossids (Anura) of the genus Latonia v. Meyer, 1843" (PDF). Geobios. 27 (6): 717–751. Bibcode:1994Geobi..27..717R. doi:10.1016/s0016-6995(94)80058-8.
  5. ^ Sorbelli, Leonardo; Andrea VILLA, undefined; Sergio GENTILI, undefined; Marco CHERIN, undefined; Giorgio CARNEVALE, undefined; Emanuel TSCHOPP, undefined; Massimo DELFINO, undefined (2021-06-21). "The Early Pleistocene ectothermic vertebrates of Pietrafitta (Italy) and the last Western European occurrence of Latonia Meyer, 1843". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 20 (26): 555–583. doi:10.5852/cr-palevol2021v20a26. ISSN 1777-571X.