#Ceratophrys

[markscherz]

Me when I feel like shit but my partner pays me a compliment.

[herpsandbirds]

Amazonian Horned Frog (Ceratophrys cornuta), family Ceratophryidae, found in northern South America

photograph by George Grall

[neechiegeckos]

It's not easy being a little frog

[bloodbrown]

I simply love him

[markscherz]

Harold is a Ceratophrys cranwelli.

[fellowshipofthenoodles]

Bathtub in the bathtub

[bufomancer]

get bit idiot

[flyingpapaya-blog]

crombus frobg

[funeralxparty]

fat fuckin frog!!!!!!

[cuicuit]

That’s my frog 💚

(Frog in the shell)

(now it’s buried)

Clearly the chillest animal I’ve ever seen (it buries itself during the day, then unburies in the evening... and that’s all... Don’t blink or you’ll miss the movement !)

[herpsandbirds]

Surinam Horned Frogs (Ceratophrys cornuta), family Ceratophryidae, Suriname

photographs by Marc Vaillant

[nineslugs]

I don't think I've shared my mud daughter here before! This is Jimmy Buffett's Cheeseburger in Paradise, my 2 and a half year old female albino pacman frog. I call her Cheeseburger for short. She loves digging holes and being a living trash compactor.

Here is an action shot of her worm destruction.

[bloodbrown]

It's Froggy Friday! Here are some frog dish images. Sister Legs and Sprout sat in one dish together.

Also, brother Beans sat by himself in a frog dish while staring and being cute.

Lastly, Nugget took a bath.

[typhlonectes]

The remarkable larval morphology of Rhaebo nasicus (Werner, 1903) (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae) with the erection of a new bufonid genus and insights into the evolution of suctorial tadpoles

Pedro Henrique dos Santos Dias, Jackson R. Phillips, Martín O. Pereyra, D. Bruce Means, Alexander Haas & Philippe J. R. Kok

Abstract

Tadpoles serve as crucial evidence for testing systematic and taxonomic hypotheses. Suctorial tadpoles collected in Guyana were initially assigned to Rhaebo nasicus through molecular phylogeny. Subsequent analysis of larval and adult morphological traits revealed synapomorphies within the clade encompassing R. nasicus and R. ceratophrys, prompting the recognition of a new genus described herein as Adhaerobufo. The new genus is distinguished from other bufonids by specific phenotypic traits including an enlarged, suctorial oral disc with distinct papillae arrangements, and the presence of certain muscles and narial vacuities at the larval stage. However, only a few adult external characteristics (e.g., enlarged eyelids, infraocular cream spot), seem to be reliably discriminative from related genera. This study underscores the significance of larval morphology in anuran systematics and offers new insights into the evolution of suctorial and gastromyzophorous larvae within bufonids.

Read the paper here:

The remarkable larval morphology of Rhaebo nasicus (Werner, 1903) (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae) with the erection of a new bufonid genus and insights into the evolution of suctorial tadpoles | Zoological Letters | Full Text

[vintagewildlife]

Brazilian horned frog (Ceratophrys aurita) By: R. Van Nostrand From: Living Amphibians of the World 1966

[fellowshipofthenoodles]

Reminder to do some self care today, a little face mask perhaps?

[ID: Bathtub the orange and yellow pacman frog sat in a muddy water bowl with mud covering her face]