Microhylinae

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: Microhylidae
Subfamilia: Microhylinae
Genera (10): Chaperina – Glyphoglossus – Kaloula – Metaphrynella – Microhyla – Micryletta – Mysticellus – Nanohyla – Phrynella – Uperodon

Name

Microhylinae Günther, 1858: 346

Type genus: Micrhyla Duméril & Bibron, 1841.

Synonyms

Hylaedactyli Fitzinger, 1843
Hylaedactylidae — Bonaparte, 1850
Hylaedactylina — Bonaparte, 1850
Micrhylidae Günther, 1858
Michrylidae — Fatio, 1872
Hylaedactylida — Knauer, 1883
Kalophryninae — Noble, 1931
Microhylinae — Noble, 1931
Cacopinae Noble, 1931
Kaloulinae Noble, 1931
Kaloulidae — Parker, 1934
Microhylidae — Parker, 1934
Microhyloidea — Laurent, 1967
Microhyloidae — Dubois, 1992
Microhylini — Dubois, 2005
Calluellinae Fei, Ye & Jiang, 2005
Microhylidae — Bossuyt & Roelants, 2009

References

Primary references

Günther, A. 1858. On the systematic arrangement of the tailless batrachians and the structure of Rhinophrynus dorsalis. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1858: 339–352.

Additional references

Parker, H.W. 1934. A Monograph of the Frogs of the Family Microhylidae. Trustees of the British Museum: LOndon.
Laurent, R.F. 1967. Taxonomia de los anuros. Acta Zoologica Lilloana 22: 207–210.
Dubois, A. 2005. Amphibia Mundi. 1.1. An ergotaxonomy of Recent amphibians. Alytes 23: 1–24.
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.
Bossuyt, F. & Roelants, K. 2009. Anura. pp. 357–364 in Hedges, S.B. & Kumar, S. (Ed.). The Timetree of Life. Oxford University Press: New York, U.S.A.
Matsui, M., Hamidy, A., Belabut, D.M., Ahmad, N., Panha, S., Sudin, A., Khonsue, W., Oh, H.-S., Yong, H.-S., Jiang, J.-P. & Nishikawa, K. 2011. Systematic relationships of Oriental tiny frogs of the family Microhylidae (Amphibia, Anura) as revealed by mtDNA genealogy. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(1): 167–176. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.05.015 Reference page.
Pyron, R.A. & Wiens, J.J. 2011. A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2,800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(2): 543–583. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.06.012 Reference page.
Peloso, P.L.V., Frost, D.R., Richards, S.J., Rodrigues, M.T., Donnellan, S.C., Matsui, M., Raxworthy, C.J., Biju, S.D., Lemmon, E.M., Lemmon, A.R. & Wheeler, W.C. 2016. The impact of anchored phylogenomics and taxon sampling on phylogenetic inference in narrow-mouthed frogs (Anura, Microhylidae). Cladistics 32(2): 113–140. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12118 Reference page.
Garg, S. & Biju, S.D. 2019. New microhylid frog genus from Peninsular India with Southeast Asian affinity suggests multiple Cenozoic biotic exchanges between India and Eurasia. Scientific Reports 9: 1906. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-38133-x Reference page.
Gorin, V.A., Scherz, M.D., Korost, D.V. & Poyarkov, N.A. 2021. Consequences of parallel miniaturisation in Microhylinae (Anura, Microhylidae), with the description of a new genus of diminutive South East Asian frogs. Zoosystematics and Evolution 97(1): 21–54. DOI: 10.3897/zse.97.57968 Reference page.

Vernacular names

English: Eastern Asian Rice Frogs

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