Latonia (frog)

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: Oligocene–Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Latonia nigriventer
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Alytidae
Genus:	Latonia Meyer, 1843
Type species
†Latonia seyfriedi Meyer, 1843
Species
See text

Species

Binomial name and author	Common name
Latonia nigriventer Mendelssohn & Steinitz, 1943	Hula painted frog
†Latonia seyfriedi von Meyer, 1843
†Latonia gigantea (Lartet, 1851)
†Latonia vertaizoni (Friant, 1944)
†Latonia ragei Hossini 1993

L. seyfriedi fossil

References

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.