''Cophixalus'' (rainforest frogs or nursery frogs) is a genus of microhylid

frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" '' Triadobatrachus'' is ...

s. These are arboreal species with expanded toe-pads, endemic to Moluccan Islands,

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and northeastern

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, Australia.

Species

As of December 2019,

Amphibian Species of the World ''Amphibian Species of the World 6.1: An Online Reference'' (ASW) is a herpetology database. It lists the names of frogs, salamanders and other amphibians, which scientists first described each species and what year, and the animal's known range ...

assigns 67 species to the genus ''Cophixalus''.Frost, Darrel R. 2019. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 (10 December 2019)
''Cophixalus''
Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. (Accessed: November 17, 2013). The source column gives direct links to the sources used: * IUCN description of species at

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Red List of Threatened Species The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biolog ...

. IUCN Red List categories are: :: - Extinct, - Extinct in the Wild :: - Critically Endangered, - Endangered, - Vulnerable :: - Near Threatened, - Least Concern :: - Data Deficient, - Not Evaluated * ASW description of species at

References

External links

* AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation eb application 2008. Berkeley, California
''Cophixalus''
AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: June 13, 2008). * Encyclopedia of Life taxo
''Cophixalus''
at http://www.eol.org. * * GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxo
''Cophixalus''
at https://web.archive.org/web/20080501142231/http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm {{Taxonbar, from=Q609046 Microhylidae Amphibians of Asia Amphibians of Oceania Amphibian genera Taxa named by Oskar Boettger