Euphlyctis

Euphlyctis cyanophlyctus

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: Dicroglossidae
Subfamilia: Dicroglossinae
Genus: Euphlyctis
Species (8): E. aloysii – E. cyanophlyctis – E. ehrenbergii – E. ghoshi – E. hexadactylus – E. kalasgramensis – E. karaavali – E. kerala

Name

Euphlyctis Fitzinger, 1843: 31

• Type species: Rana leschenaultii Duméril & Bibron, 1841, by original designation.

Synonyms

• Phrynoderma Fitzinger, 1843: 31 [preoccupied by Phrynoderma Sturm, 1828]
  • Type species: Rana cutipora Duméril & Bibron, 1841, by original designation.
• Dicroglossus Günther, 1860: 158
  • Type species: Dicroglossus adolfi Günther, 1860, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus primus. Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel: Wien. vi + 106 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Günther, A. 1860. Contribution to the knowledge of the reptiles of the Himalaya mountains. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 28(1): 148–175. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Joshy, S.H., Alam, M.S., Kurabayashi, A., Sumida, M. & Kuramoto, M. 2009. Two new species of the genus Euphlyctis (Anura, Ranidae) from southwestern India, revealed by molecular and morphological comparisons. Alytes 26(1–4): 97–116. Reference page. 
• Howlader, M.S.A., Nair, A., Gopalan, S.V. & Merilä, J. 2015. A New Species of Euphlyctis (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from Barisal, Bangladesh. PLoS ONE 10(2): e0116666. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116666 Reference page. 
• Priti, H., Naik, C.R., Seshadri, K.S., Singal, R., Vidisha, M.K., Ravikanth, G. & Gururaja, K.V. 2016. A new species of Euphlyctis (Amphibia, Anura, Dicroglossidae) from the West Coastal Plains of India. Asian Herpetological Research 7(4): 229–241. DOI: 10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.160020 Reference page. 
• Dinesh, K.P., Murthy, B.H.C., Deepak, P., Ghosh, A. & Deuti, K. 2021. Morphological groupings within Euphlyctis (Anura: Dicroglossidae) and description of a new species from the surroundings of Thattekad Bird Sanctuary, Kerala, India. Zootaxa 4990(2): 329–353. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4990.2.7 Reference page. 

Links

• Frost, D.R. 2021. Euphlyctis. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1 (1 December 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: Five-fingered Frogs

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