''Celsiella'' is a small genus of
glass frog
The glass frogs belong to the amphibian family Centrolenidae (order Anura), native to the Central American and Colombian rainforests. The general background coloration of most glass frogs is primarily lime green, the abdominal skin of some membe ...
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endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to
Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...
.
It was established in 2009 and named in honour of
Josefa Celsa Señaris
Josefa Celsa Señaris (born 2 November 1965) is a Venezuelan herpetologist. She has published information about frogs and she has identified new genera and species. Señaris is the director of the La Salle Foundation's Natural History Museum (Span ...
, nicknamed "Celsi", a Venezuelan herpetologist who had worked with glass frogs.
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Description
The ventral parietal peritoneum
The peritoneum is the serous membrane forming the lining of the abdominal cavity or coelom in amniotes and some invertebrates, such as annelids. It covers most of the intra-abdominal (or coelomic) organs, and is composed of a layer of mesothe ...
is white anteriorly and transparent posteriorly. The bones are pale green or green.[
Male ''Celsiella'' call from, and females deposit their eggs on the underside or upper side of leaves. Tentative evidence suggests that males guard their eggs.][
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Taxonomy
Monophyly
In biological cladistics for the classification of organisms, monophyly is the condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of organisms which meets these criteria:
# the grouping contains its own most recent comm ...
of ''Celsiella'' is strongly supported by genetic data. It is also morphologically distinct from the closely related genus ''Hyalinobatrachium
''Hyalinobatrachium'' is a genus of glass frogs, family Centrolenidae. They are widely distributed in the Americas, from tropical Mexico to southeastern Brazil and Argentina.
Taxonomy and systematics
The genus is currently defined to include ''H ...
''species of which have completely transparent venters, white liver, and white bones. It was erected in 2009;[ its ]species composition
Relative species abundance is a component of biodiversity and is a measure of how common or rare a species is relative to other species in a defined location or community.Hubbell, S. P. 2001. ''The unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeog ...
has not changed afterwards.[
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Species
There are two species:Celsiella vozmedianoi
''Celsiella vozmedianoi'' (in Spanish: ''ranita de cristal de Paria'') is a species of frog in the family Centrolenidae, endemic to the Cerro El Humo, in the Paria Peninsula in northern Venezuela.
Description
Males measure in snout–vent leng ...
'' (Ayarzagüena and Señaris, 1997)
References
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Glass frogs
Amphibian genera
Endemic fauna of Venezuela
Taxa named by José Ayarzagüena
Taxa named by Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher