Arthroleptella

Arthroleptella is a genus of frogs known as moss frogs in the family Pyxicephalidae. The ten species of this genus are endemic to South Africa.

Arthroleptella
Arthroleptella lightfooti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Pyxicephalidae
Subfamily:	Cacosterninae
Genus:	Arthroleptella Hewitt, 1926
Species
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It contains the following species:^[1]

• Arthroleptella atermina Turner and Channing, 2017 - Riviersonderent moss frog
• Arthroleptella bicolor Hewitt, 1926 – Bainskloof moss frog
• Arthroleptella draconella Turner and Channing, 2017 – Drakenstein moss frog
• Arthroleptella drewesii Channing, Hendricks and Dawood, 1994 – Drewes' moss frog
• Arthroleptella kogelbergensis Turner and Channing, 2017 – Kogelsberg moss frog
• Arthroleptella landdrosia Dawood and Channing, 2000 – Landdros moss frog
• Arthroleptella lightfooti (Boulenger, 1910) – Lightfoot's moss frog
• Arthroleptella rugosa Turner and Channing, 2008 – Rough moss frog
• Arthroleptella subvoce Turner, de Villiers, Dawood and Channing, 2004 – Northern moss frog
• Arthroleptella villiersi Hewitt, 1935 – De Villiers' moss frog

Two other species were formerly classified as Arthroleptella before recently found to belong to the formerly monotypic genus Anhydrophryne (Dawood and Stam 2006):^[2][3]

• Arthroleptella hewitti → Anhydrophryne hewitti (FitzSimons, 1947) – Hewitt's moss frog
• Arthroleptella ngongoniensis → Anhydrophryne ngongoniensis (Bishop and Passmore, 1993) – Ngoni moss frog