''Crossodactylodes'' (common name: bromeliad frogs) is a genus of

leptodactylid The southern frogs form the Leptodactylidae, a name that comes from Greek meaning a bird or other animal having slender toes. They are a diverse family of frogs that most likely diverged from other hyloids during the Cretaceous. The family has u ...

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 from the

Atlantic Forest The Atlantic Forest ( pt, Mata Atlântica) is a South American forest that extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state in the northeast to Rio Grande do Sul state in the south and inland as far as Paraguay and t ...

of eastern

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. Most ''Crossodactylodes'' are

species closely associated with

bromeliad The Bromeliaceae (the bromeliads) are a family of monocot flowering plants of about 80 genera and 3700 known species, native mainly to the tropical Americas, with several species found in the American subtropics and one in tropical west Africa ...

s where they complete their entire life cycle, including the larval development. However, ''

Crossodactylodes itambe ''Crossodactylodes'' (common name: bromeliad frogs) is a genus of leptodactylid frogs from the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. Most ''Crossodactylodes'' are Atlantic Forest species closely associated with bromeliad The Bromeliaceae (the ...

'' inhabits rupicolous (rock-dwelling) bromeliads in open field habitats at higher altitudes.

Species

There are five species: * '' Crossodactylodes bokermanni'' Peixoto, 1983 * ''

'' Barata, Santos, Leite, and Garcias, 2013 * '' Crossodactylodes izecksohni'' Peixoto, 1983 * '' Crossodactylodes pintoi'' Cochran, 1938 * '' Crossodactylodes septentrionalis'' Teixeira, Recoder, Amaro, Damasceno, Cassimiro, and Rodrigues, 2013

References

Leptodactylidae Amphibians of South America Amphibian genera Taxa named by Doris Mable Cochran {{Leptodactylidae-stub