Phrynobatrachus

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Phrynobatrachidae
Genus: Phrynobatrachus
Species (96): P. acridoides – P. acutirostris – P. afiabirago – P. africanus – P. albifer – P. albomarginatus – P. alleni – P. ambanguluensis – P. amieti – P. annulatus – P. anotis – P. arcanus – P. asper – P. auritus – P. batesii – P. bequaerti – P. bibita – P. breviceps – P. brevipalmatus – P. brongersmai – P. bullans – P. calcaratus – P. chukuchuku – P. congicus – P. cornutus – P. cricogaster – P. cryptotis – P. dalcqi – P. danko – P. dendrobates – P. discogularis – P. dispar – P. elberti – P. francisci – P. fraterculus – P. gastoni – P. ghanensis – P. giorgii – P. graueri – P. guineensis – P. gutturosus – P. hieroglyphicus – P. horsti – P. hylaios – P. inexpectatus – P. intermedius – P. irangi – P. jimzimkusi – P. kakamikro – P. keniensis – P. kinangopensis – P. krefftii – P. latifrons – P. leveleve – P. liberiensis – P. mababiensis – P. maculiventris – P. manengoubensis – P. mayokoensis – P. mbabo – P. minutus – P. nanus – P. natalensis – P. njiomock – P. ogoensis – P. pakenhami – P. pallidus – P. parkeri – P. parvulus – P. perpalmatus – P. petropedetoides – P. phyllophilus – P. pintoi – P. plicatus – P. pygmaeus – P. rainerguentheri – P. rouxi – P. rungwensis – P. ruthbeateae – P. sandersoni – P. scapularis – P. scheffleri – P. schioetzi – P. steindachneri – P. sternfeldi – P. stewartae – P. sulfureogularis – P. taiensis – P. tanoeensis – P. tokba – P. ukingensis – P. ungujae – P. uzungwensis – P. versicolor – P. villiersi – P. werneri

Name

Phrynobatrachus Günther, 1862: 190 [conserved name]

Type species: Phrynobatrachus natalensis Günther, 1862, by monotypy.
Gender: masculine.
Placed on the Official List of Generic Name by Opinion 1921 (1999: 96).

Synonyms

Stenorhynchus Smith, 1849
Heteroglossa Hallowell, 1858
Hemimantis Peters, 1863
Leptoparius Peters, 1863
Dimorphognathus Boulenger, 1906
Pararthroleptis Ahl, 1925
Hylarthroleptis Ahl, 1925
Phrynodon Parker, 1935
Pseudarthroleptis Deckert, 1938
Micrarthroleptis Deckert, 1938

References

Primary references

Günther, A. 1862. Descriptions of new species of reptiles and fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1862: 188–194.
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1999. Opinion 1921. Petropedetinae Noble, 1931, Cacosterninae Noble, 1931 and Phrynobatrachinae Laurent, 1941 (Amphibia, Anura): given precedence over Hemimantidae Hoffmann, 1878, and Phrynobatrachinae: not given precedence over Petropedetinae. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 56(1): 96–100. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Frétey, T. 2008. Revue des genres africains Arthroleptis Smith, 1849 et Phrynobatrachus Günther, 1862 (Amphibia, Anura). Alytes 25(3–4): 99–172. ResearchGate Reference page.
Zimkus, B.M. 2009. Biogeographical analysis of Cameroonian puddle frogs and description of a new species of Phrynobatrachus (Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) endemic to Mount Oku, Cameroon. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157(4): 795–813. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00579.x Reference page.
Rödel, M.-O., Ofori Boateng, C., Penner, J. & Hillers, A. 2009. A new cryptic Phrynobatrachus species (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from Ghana, West Africa. Zootaxa 1970(1): 52–63. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1970.1.2 Reference page.
Rödel, M.-O., Ohler, A. & Hillers, A. 2010. A new extraordinary Phrynobatrachus (Amphibia, Anura, Phrynobatrachidae) from West Africa. Zoosystematics and Evolution 86(2): 257–261. DOI: 10.1002/zoos.201000008 Reference page.
Zimkus, B.M., Rödel, M.-O. & Hillers, A. 2010. Complex patterns of continental speciation: Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of sub-Saharan puddle frogs (Phrynobatrachus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55(3): 883–900. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.12.012 Reference page.
Blackburn, D.C. & Rödel, M.-O. 2011. A new Puddle Frog (Phrynobatrachidae: Phrynobatrachus) from the Obudu Plateau In eastern Nigeria. Herpetologica 67(3): 271–287. DOI: 10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-10-00046.1 Reference page.
Rödel, M.-O., Onadeko, A.B., Barej, M.F. & Sandberger, L. 2012. A new polymorphic Phrynobatrachus (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from western Nigeria. Zootaxa 3328(1): 55–65. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3328.1.5 Reference page.
Rödel, M.-O., Doherty-Bone, T., Kouete, M.T., Janzen, P., Garrett, K., Browne, R., Gonwouo, N.L., Barej, M.F. & Sandberger, L. 2012. A new small Phrynobatrachus (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from southern Cameroon. Zootaxa 3431(1): 54–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3431.1.4 Reference page.
Zimkus, B.M. & Gvoždík, V. 2013. Sky Islands of the Cameroon Volcanic Line: a diversification hot spot for puddle frogs (Phrynobatrachidae: Phrynobatrachus). Zoologica Scripta 42(6): 591–611. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12029 Reference page.
Rödel, M-O., Burger, M., Zassi-Boulou, A-G., Emmrich, M., Penner, J. & Barej, M.F. 2015. Two new Phrynobatrachus species (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from the Republic of the Congo. Zootaxa 4032(1): 55–80. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4032.1.3 Reference page.
Pickersgill, M., Zimkus, B.M. & Raw, L.R.G. 2017. A new species of Phrynobatrachus (Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania. Zootaxa 4350(1): 151–163. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4350.1.9 Reference page.
Kpan, T.F., Kouamé, N.G., Barej, M.F., Adeba, P.J., Emmrich, M., Ofori-Boateng, C. & Rödel, M-O. 2018. A new Puddle Frog, genus Phrynobatrachus (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae), from the eastern part of the Upper Guinea biodiversity hotspot, West Africa. Zootaxa 4388(2): 221–237. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.2.5 Reference page.
Ofori-Boateng, C., Leaché, A.D., Obeng-Kankam, B., Kouamé, N.G., Hillers, A. & Rödel, M-O. 2018. A new species of Puddle Frog, genus Phrynobatrachus (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from Ghana. Zootaxa 4374(4): 565–578. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4374.4.6 Reference page.
Goutte, S., Reyes-Velasco, J. & Boissinot, S. 2019. A New Species of Puddle Frog from An Unexplored Mountain in southwestern Ethiopia (Anura, Phrynobatrachidae, Phrynobatrachus). ZooKeys 824: 53–70. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.824.31570 Reference page.
Greenwood, L., Loader, S.P., Lawson, L.P., Greenbaum, E. & Zimkus, B.M. 2020. A new species of Phrynobatrachus (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from the northern mountains of Tanzania. Journal of Natural History 54(1–4): 63–85. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1757171 Reference page.
Gvoždík, V., Nečas, T., Dolinay, M., Zimkus, B.M., Schmitz, A. & Fokam, E.B. 2020. Evolutionary history of the Cameroon radiation of puddle frogs (Phrynobatrachidae: Phrynobatrachus), with descriptions of two critically endangered new species from the northern Cameroon Volcanic Line. PeerJ 8(e8393): 1–52. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.8393 Reference page.
Dolinay, M., Nečas, T., Zimkus, B.M., Schmitz, A., Fokam, E.B., Lemmon, E.M., Lemmon, A.R. & Gvoždík, V. 2021. Gene flow in phylogenomics: Sequence capture resolves species limits and biogeography of afromontane forest endemic frogs from the Cameroon Highlands. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 163: 107258. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107258 Reference page.

Links

Frost, D.R. 2021. Phrynobatrachus. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1 (17 July 2022). 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: Puddle Frogs