Parsley Frogs

Parsley Frogs

Taxobox
name = Parsley Frogs



image_width = 200px
image_caption = "Pelodytes punctatus"
fossil_range = Fossil range/Sandbox|47|0Mid Eocene – Recent
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Amphibia
ordo = Anura
subordo = Mesobatrachia
familia = Pelodytidae
familia_authority = Bonaparte, 1850
genus = "Pelodytes"
genus_authority = Bonaparte, 1838
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Pelodytes caucasicus "Pelodytes ibericus "Pelodytes punctatus
range_

range_map_width = 200px
range_map_caption = Distribution of Pelodytidae (in black)

Parsley frogs, Pelodytidae, is a family of order Anura. The family consists of just one genus, Pelodytes, which contains only three species. These frogs can be found in southwestern Europe and the Caucasus. The common name of "parsley frogs" comes from the Common Parsley Frog ("Pelodytes punctatus") which, because of its colouring, looks garnished with parsley.

The parsley frogs are typical looking frogs closely related to the Spadefoot toads and Megophyrids, but differ largely in appearance. Unlike the Megophryids, they do not have cryptic colouring, usually being green or brown. Unlike the spadefoot toads, they lack a hardened protrusion on their feet, although they are still fossorial, and are generally slender frogs.cite book |editor=Cogger, H.G. & Zweifel, R.G.|author= Zweifel, Richard G.|year=1998|title=Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians|publisher= Academic Press|location=San Diego|pages= 88-89|isbn= 0-12-178560-2]

The parsley frogs are small, smooth skinned frogs, reaching a length of convert|5|cm|in. They are one of the few families of frogs which contain more known extinct species and genera (two or three) than extant species. Although now found only in Europe, fossils of a mid-Miocene species are also known from North America.

Taxonomy

Family Pelodytidae
* Genus "Pelodytes"
** Caucasian Parsley Frog, "Pelodytes caucasicus"
** Iberian Parsley Frog, "Pelodytes ibericus"
** Common Parsley Frog, "Pelodytes punctatus"

References

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*cite web|title=ADW: Pelodytidae: Information|url= http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Pelodytidae.html| accessdate=2006-05-13


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