Megophryidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Megophryidae
Subfamiliae (2): Leptobrachiinae – Megophryinae

Name

Megophryidae Bonaparte, 1850: 1

Type genus: Megalophrys Wagler, 1830 (= Megophrys Kuhl & Van Hasselt, 1822).

Synonymy

Megalophreidina Bonaparte, 1850
Megalophryinae — Fejérváry, 1922
Megophryinae — Noble, 1931
Megalophryninae — Tamarunov, 1964
Leptobrachiini Dubois, 1980
Megophryini — Dubois, 1980
Leptobrachiinae — Dubois, 1983
Oreolalaxinae Tian & Hu, 1985
Oreolalaginae — Dubois, 1987
Megophryidae — Ford & Cannatella, 1993
Xenophryini Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean & Ohler, 2006: 17

References

Primary references

Bonaparte, C.L. 1850. Conspectus systematum Herpetologiae et Amphibiologiae. Editio altera reformata. E. J. Brill: Lugduni Batavorum. 1 p. Reference page.

Additional references

Dubois, A. 1987. Miscellanea taxinomica batrachologica (I). Alytes 5: 7–95.
Ford, L.S. & Cannatella, D.C. 1993. The major clades of frogs. Herpetological Monographs 7: 94–117. DOI: 10.2307/1466954 Reference page.
Delorme, M., Dubois, A., Grosjean, S. & Ohler, A. 2006. Une nouvelle ergotaxinomie des Megophryidae (Amphibia, Anura). Alytes 24(1-4): 6–21. Reference page.
Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P.E., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–370. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5781 . Reference page.
Li, C. & Wang, Y.-Z. 2008. Taxonomic review of Megophrys and Xenophrys, and a proposal for Chinese species (Megophryidae, Anura). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 33(1): 104–106. Reference page.
Dubois, A., Grosjean, S., Ohler, A., Adler, K. & Zhao, E.-M. 2010. The nomenclatural status of some generic nomina of Megophryidae (Amphibia, Anura). Zootaxa 2493(1): 66–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2493.1.6
Deuti, K., Grosjean, S., Nicolas, V., Vasudevan, K. & Ohler, A. 2017. Nomenclatural puzzle in early Xenophrys nomina (Anura, Megophryidae) solved with description of two new species from India (Darjeeling hills and Sikkim). Alytes 34: 20–48. Reference page.
Mahony, S., Foley, N.M., Biju, S.D. & Teeling, E.C. 2017. Evolutionary history of the Asian Horned Frogs (Megophryinae): integrative approaches to timetree dating in the absence of a fossil record. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34(3): 744–771. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msw267 Reference page.
Chen, J.-M., Zhou, W.-W., Poyarkov, Jr., N.A., Stuart, B.L., Brown, R.M., Lathrop, A., Wang, Y.-Y., Yuan, Z.-Y., Jiang, K., Hou, M., Chen, H.-M., Suwannapoom, C., Nguyen, S.N., Duong, T.V., Papenfuss, T.J., Murphy, R.W., Zhang, Y.-P. & Che, J. 2017. A novel multilocus phylogenetic estimation reveals unrecognized diversity in Asian horned toads, genus Megophrys sensu lato (Anura: Megophryidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 106: 28–43. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.09.004 Reference page.
Chen, J., Poyarkov Jr., N.A., Suwannapoom, C., Lathrop, A., Wu, Y.-H., Zhou, W.-W., Yuan, Z.-Y., Jin, J.-Q., Chen, H.-M., Liu, H.-Q., Nguyen, T.Q., Nguyen, S.N., Duong, T.V., Eto, K., Nishikawa, K., Matsui, M., Orlov, N.L., Stuart, B.L., Brown, R.M., Rowley, J.J.L., Murphy, R.W., Wang, Y.-Y. & Che, J. 2018. Large-scale phylogenetic analyses provide insights into unrecognized diversity and historical biogeography of Asian leaf-litter frogs, genus Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 124: 162–171. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.02.020 Reference page.
Liu, Z.-Y., Chen, G.-L., Zhu, T.-Q., Zeng, Z.-C., Lyu, Z.-T., Wang, J., Messenger, K., Greenberg, A.J., Guo, Z.-X., Yang, Z., Shi, S.-H. & Wang, Y.-Y. 2018. Prevalence of cryptic species in morphologically uniform taxa–fast speciation and evolutionary radiation in Asian toads. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 127: 723–731. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.020 Reference page.
Li, Y., Zhang, D.-D., Lyu, Z.T., Wang, J., Li, Y.-L., Liu, Z.-Y., Chen, H.-H., Rao, D.-Q., Jin, Z.-F., Zhang, C.-Y. & Wang, Y.-Y. 2020. Review of the genus Brachytarsophrys (Anura: Megophryidae), with revalidation of Brachytarsophrys platyparietus and description of a new species from China. Zoological Research 41(2): 105–122. DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2020.033 Reference page.
Lyu, Z.-T., Zeng, Z.-C., Wang, J., Liu, Z.-Y., Huang, Y.-Q., Li, W.-Z. & Wang, Y.-Y. 2021. Four new species of Panophrys (Anura, Megophryidae) from eastern China, with discussion on the recognition of Panophrys as a distinct genus. Zootaxa 4927(1): 9–40. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4927.1.2 Reference page.

Links

Frost, D.R. 2021. Megophryidae. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1 (24 July 2021). Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001

Vernacular names

English: Asian Toads
日本語: コノハガエル科
ไทย: อึ่งกราย

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