''Ikakogi'' is a genus of

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

s in the family Centrolenidae. It has been tentatively placed in the

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Centroleninae, although more recent analyses suggest that it is the

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of the

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Centroleninae+ Hyalinobatrachiinae.

Taxonomy

Until 2019, the genus was considered to be

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, but now contains the following two species: * '' Ikakogi ispacue'' Rada, Dias, Peréz-González, Anganoy-Criollo, Rueda-Solano, Pinto-E., Mejía Quintero, Vargas-Salinas, and Grant, 2019 * '' Ikakogi tayrona'' (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ikakogi Glass frogs Amphibians of South America Amphibians of Colombia Endemic fauna of Colombia Amphibian genera