Latonia is a genus of frogs in the family Alytidae (formerly Discoglossidae). It contains only one extant species, the Hula painted frog[1] which is endemic to Israel and was originally classified in the genus Discoglossus,[2] though several fossil species are known from the Paleogene and Neogene periods (Upper Oligocene to Early Pleistocene) spanning across Europe.[3][4][5]
| Latonia Temporal range:
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| Latonia nigriventer | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Alytidae |
| Genus: | Latonia Meyer, 1843 |
| Type species | |
| †Latonia seyfriedi Meyer, 1843
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Species edit
| Binomial name and author | Common name |
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| Latonia nigriventer Mendelssohn & Steinitz, 1943 | Israel painted frog or Hula painted frog |
| †Latonia seyfriedi von Meyer, 1843 | |
| †Latonia gigantea (Lartet, 1851) | |
| †Latonia vertaizoni (Friant, 1944) | |
| †Latonia ragei Hossini 1993 |
References edit
- ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Latonia Meyer, 1843". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
- ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Latonia nigriventer (Mendelssohn and Steinitz, 1943)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
- ^ Villa, Andrea; Delfino, Massimo; Luján, Àngel H.; Almécija, Sergio; Alba, David M. (2019-03-16). "First record of Latonia gigantea (Anura, Alytidae) from the Iberian Peninsula". Historical Biology. 31 (3): 371–382. doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1371712. hdl:2318/1647233. ISSN 0891-2963. S2CID 134748481.
- ^ Rocek, Z. (1994). "Taxonomy and distribution of Tertiary discoglossids (Anura) of the genus Latonia v. Meyer, 1843" (PDF). Geobios. 27 (6): 717–751. Bibcode:1994Geobi..27..717R. doi:10.1016/s0016-6995(94)80058-8.
- ^ Sorbelli, Leonardo; Andrea VILLA, undefined; Sergio GENTILI, undefined; Marco CHERIN, undefined; Giorgio CARNEVALE, undefined; Emanuel TSCHOPP, undefined; Massimo DELFINO, undefined (2021-06-21). "The Early Pleistocene ectothermic vertebrates of Pietrafitta (Italy) and the last Western European occurrence of Latonia Meyer, 1843". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 20 (26): 555–583. doi:10.5852/cr-palevol2021v20a26. ISSN 1777-571X.
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