''Paedophryne'' (from the

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ...

''paedos'' (παίδος) "child" and ''phryne'' (φρύνος) "toad, frog") is a genus of

microhylid The Microhylidae, commonly known as narrow-mouthed frogs, are a geographically widespread family of frogs. The 683 species are in 57 genera and 11 subfamilies. Evolution A molecular phylogenetic study by van der Meijden, et al. (2007) has estima ...

frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely semiaquatic group of short-bodied, tailless amphibian vertebrates composing the order (biology), order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek , literally 'without tail'). Frog species with rough ski ...

s from

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...

, including

D'Entrecasteaux Islands D'Entrecasteaux Islands () are situated near the eastern tip of New Guinea in the Solomon Sea in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. The group spans a distance of , has a total land area of approximately and is separated from the Papua New G ...

. All seven species known so far are amongst the smallest frog and vertebrate species.

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus ''Paedophryne'': * ''

Paedophryne amauensis ''Paedophryne amauensis'', also known as the New Guinea Amau frog, is a species of microhylid frog endemic to eastern Papua New Guinea. At in snout-to-vent length, it was once considered the world's smallest known vertebrate. (See also Ecolo ...

'' Rittmeyer ''et al.'', 2012 * ''

Paedophryne dekot ''Paedophryne'' (from the Ancient Greek language, Ancient Greek ''paedos'' (παίδος) "child" and ''phryne'' (φρύνος) "toad, frog") is a genus of Microhylidae, microhylid frogs from Papua New Guinea, including D'Entrecasteaux Islands. ...

'' Kraus, 2011 * '' Paedophryne kathismaphlox'' Kraus, 2010 * '' Paedophryne oyatabu'' Kraus, 2010 * '' Paedophryne swiftorum'' Rittmeyer ''et al.'', 2012 * '' Paedophryne titan'' Kraus, 2015 * '' Paedophryne verrucosa'' Kraus, 2011

Gallery

File:Paedophryne kathismaphlox, dorsal view.jpg, ''Paedophryne kathismaphlox'' File:Paedophryne oyatabu.jpg, ''Paedophryne oyatabu'' File:Paedophryne dekot2.jpg, ''Paedophryne dekot'' File:Paedophryne verrucosa2.jpg, ''Paedophryne verrucosa'' File:Paratype of Paedophryne amauensis (LSUMZ 95004).png, ''Paedophryne amauensis'' on a dime File:Paratype of Paedophryne swiftorum.png, ''Paedophryne swiftorum''

Footnotes

Microhylidae Amphibians of New Guinea Amphibian genera {{Microhylidae-stub