Plethodontohyla

Plethodontohyla
Plethodontohyla notosticta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Microhylidae
Subfamily:	Cophylinae
Genus:	Plethodontohyla Boulenger, 1882
Type species
Callula notosticta Günther, 1877
Diversity
11 species
Synonyms
CallulaGünther, 1877 (partial) MantipusPeters, 1883 (partial) PhrynocaraPeters, 1883 MantiphrysMocquard, 1895

Plethodontohyla is a genus of microhylid frogs endemic to Madagascar. ^[1]

Species

There are at present 11 species: ^{[1] [2] [3]}

• Plethodontohyla alluaudi (Mocquard, 1901)
• Plethodontohyla bipunctata (Guibé, 1974)
• Plethodontohyla brevipes Boulenger, 1882
• Plethodontohyla fonetana Glaw, Köhler, Bora, Rabibisoa, Ramilijaona, and Vences, 2007
• Plethodontohyla guentheri Glaw and Vences, 2007
• Plethodontohyla inguinalis Boulenger, 1882
• Plethodontohyla laevis (Boettger, 1913)
• Plethodontohyla mihanika Vences, Raxworthy, Nussbaum, and Glaw, 2003
• Plethodontohyla notosticta (Günther, 1877)
• Plethodontohyla ocellata Noble and Parker, 1926
• Plethodontohyla tuberata (Peters, 1883)

Taxonomy

The following species were formerly classed as Plethodontoyhla species but have since been moved to the genus Rhombophryne :

• Rhombophryne coronata (Vences & Glaw, 2003)
• Rhombophryne guentherpetersi (Guibé, 1974)
• Rhombophryne laevipes (Mocquard, 1895)
• Rhombophryne minuta (Guibé, 1975)
• Rhombophryne serratopalpebrosa (Guibé, 1975)

The taxon Plethodontohyla alluaudi was moved to Rhombophryne by Frost et al. in 2006, ^[4] but was transferred back to Plethodontohyla after review of its taxonomic status in early 2018, ^[3] along with the newly resurrected Plethodontohyla laevis . In addition, the species Rhombophryne matavy was erroneously transferred to Plethodontohyla in 2016 ^[5] based on a misidentified DNA sequence, and was later transferred back to Rhombophryne. ^[6]

References

1. Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Plethodontohyla Boulenger, 1882". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
2. "Microhylidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
3. Bellati, Adriana; Scherz, Mark D.; Megson, Steven; Roberts, Sam Hyde; Andreone, Franco; Rosa, Gonçalo M.; Noël, Jean; Randrianirina, Jasmin E.; Fasola, Mauro (2018-02-02). "Resurrection and re-description of Plethodontohyla laevis (Boettger, 1913) and transfer of Rhombophryne alluaudi (Mocquard, 1901) to the genus Plethodontohyla (Amphibia, Microhylidae, Cophylinae)". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 94 (1): 109–135. doi: 10.3897/zse.94.14698 . hdl: 2158/1425326 . ISSN   1860-0743.
4. Frost, Darrel R.; Grant, Taran; Faivovich, Julián; Bain, Raoul H.; Haas, Alexander; Haddad, Célio F.b.; De Sá, Rafael O.; Channing, Alan; Wilkinson, Mark (2006-03-01). "The amphibian tree of life". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 297: 1–291. doi: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:tatol]2.0.co;2 . ISSN   0003-0090. S2CID   86140137.
5. Peloso, P. L. V.; Frost, D. R.; Richards, S. J.; Rodrigues, M. T.; Donnellan, S.; Matsui, M.; Raxworhty, 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 . PMID   34732021. S2CID   84925667.
6. Scherz, Mark D.; Vences, Miguel; Rakotoarison, Andolalao; Andreone, Franco; Köhler, Jörn; Glaw, Frank; Crottini, Angelica (2016). "Reconciling molecular phylogeny, morphological divergence and classification of Madagascan narrow-mouthed frogs (Amphibia: Microhylidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 100: 372–381. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.04.019. PMID   27085671.