''Espadarana'' is a genus of glass frogs. They are found in Central America (Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama) and northern South America (Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador).

Etymology

The generic name ''Espadarana'' honors Marcos Jiménez de la Espada, a Spanish zoologist. Among other things, he described the first centrolenid frog, ''

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'' in 1872. Moreover, the Spanish word ''espada'' means "sword", which can be associated with the

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s that adult male ''Espadarana'' have.

Description

The diagnostic characters of ''Espadarana'' include conspicuous

s present in adult males, as hinted in their name. There is moderate webbing between third and fourth fingers. The dorsum is lavender in preserved individuals and may have spots. Internal features include green bones (in live specimens), lobed liver covered by a transparent hepatic peritoneum, whereas the ventral parietal peritoneum is white in its anterior part and transparent in its poster part. The digestive tract is translucent. In terms of osteology, ''Espadarana'' possess vomerine teeth and quadratojugal bone that is articulating with maxilla.

Reproduction

In ''Espadarana'', males call while sitting on leaves or branches. The eggs are deposited on leaves over streams.

Species

The genus contains five species: * '' Espadarana andina'' (Rivero, 1968) * '' Espadarana audax'' (Lynch and Duellman, 1973) * '' Espadarana callistomma'' (Guayasamin and Trueb, 2007) * '' Espadarana durrellorum'' (Cisneros-Heredia, 2007) * ''

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'' (Boettger, 1892)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q941847 Glass frogs Amphibian genera Amphibians of Central America Amphibians of South America