Uperodon

Uperodon systoma

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 Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Microhylidae
Subfamilia: Microhylinae
Genus: Uperodon
Species (12): U. anamalaiensis – U. globulosus – U. montanus – U. mormoratus – U. nagaoi – U. obscurus – U. palmatus – U. rohani – U. systoma – U. taprobanicus – U. triangularis – U. variegatus

Name

Uperodon Duméril & Bibron, 1841: 48

• Type species: Engystoma marmoratum Guérin-Méneville, 1838, by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Hyperodon Agassiz, 1846: 190 [unjustified emendation of Uperodon Duméril & Bibron, 1841]
• Cacopus Günther, 1864: 415 [nomen substitutum for Uperodon Duméril & Bibron, 1841]
• Pachybatrachus Keferstein, 1868: 273 [synonymized by Boulenger (1882: 174)]
  • Type species: Pachybatrachus petersii Keferstein, 1868, by monotypy.
• Ramanella Rao in Rao & Ramanna, 1925: 587 [synonymized by Peloso et al. (2016: 138)]
  • Type species: Ramanella symbioitica Rao & Ramanna, 1925, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Duméril, A.M.C. & Bibron, G. 1841. Erpétologie Générale on Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Tome Huitième (In French). Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret: Paris. III + 784 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Rao, C.R.N. & Ramanna, B.S. 1925. On a new genus of the family Engystomatidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1925: 587–597.
• 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. 

Additional references

• Garg, S., Senevirathne, G., Wijayathilaka, N., Phuge, S., Deuti, K., Manamendra-Arachchi, K., Meegaskumbura, M. & Biju, S.D. 2018. An integrative taxonomic review of the South Asian microhylid genus Uperodon. Zootaxa 4384(1): 1–88. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4384.1.1 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Globular Frogs