Proceratophrys Boiei - Carlos Botelho
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''Proceratophrys'' is a genus of
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 in the family
Odontophrynidae The Odontophrynidae are a family of frogs from southern and eastern South America. This family was first established in 1969 as the tribe Odontophrynini within the (then) very large family Leptodactylidae. Molecular phylogenetics analyses prompte ...
. They are found in eastern and southern Brazil, northeastern Argentina, and Paraguay, possibly into Bolivia adjacent to the Brazilian border.


Species

The genus contains 42 species, many of them only recently described:


References

Odontophrynidae Amphibians of South America Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{hyloidea-stub