Megophryidae

Pelobatrachus nasutus

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: Megophryidae
Subfamiliae (2): Leptobrachiinae – Megophryinae

Name

Megophryidae Bonaparte, 1850: 1

• Type genus: Megalophrys Wagler, 1830 (= Megophrys Kuhl & Van Hasselt, 1822).

Synonymy

• Megalophreidina Bonaparte, 1850
• Megalophryinae — Fejérváry, 1922
• Megophryinae — Noble, 1931
• Megalophryninae — Tamarunov, 1964
• Leptobrachiini Dubois, 1980
• Megophryini — Dubois, 1980
• Leptobrachiinae — Dubois, 1983
• Oreolalaxinae Tian & Hu, 1985
• Oreolalaginae — Dubois, 1987
• Megophryidae — Ford & Cannatella, 1993
• Xenophryini Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean & Ohler, 2006: 17

References

Primary references

• Bonaparte, C.L. 1850. Conspectus systematum Herpetologiae et Amphibiologiae. Editio altera reformata. E. J. Brill: Lugduni Batavorum. 1 p. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Dubois, A. 1987. Miscellanea taxinomica batrachologica (I). Alytes 5: 7–95.
• Ford, L.S. & Cannatella, D.C. 1993. The major clades of frogs. Herpetological Monographs 7: 94–117. DOI: 10.2307/1466954 Reference page. 
• Delorme, M., Dubois, A., Grosjean, S. & Ohler, A. 2006. Une nouvelle ergotaxinomie des Megophryidae (Amphibia, Anura). Alytes 24(1-4): 6–21. Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Li, C. & Wang, Y.-Z. 2008. Taxonomic review of Megophrys and Xenophrys, and a proposal for Chinese species (Megophryidae, Anura). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 33(1): 104–106. Reference page. 
• Dubois, A., Grosjean, S., Ohler, A., Adler, K. & Zhao, E.-M. 2010. The nomenclatural status of some generic nomina of Megophryidae (Amphibia, Anura). Zootaxa 2493(1): 66–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2493.1.6
• Deuti, K., Grosjean, S., Nicolas, V., Vasudevan, K. & Ohler, A. 2017. Nomenclatural puzzle in early Xenophrys nomina (Anura, Megophryidae) solved with description of two new species from India (Darjeeling hills and Sikkim). Alytes 34: 20–48. Reference page. 
• Mahony, S., Foley, N.M., Biju, S.D. & Teeling, E.C. 2017. Evolutionary history of the Asian Horned Frogs (Megophryinae): integrative approaches to timetree dating in the absence of a fossil record. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34(3): 744–771. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msw267 Reference page. 
• Chen, J.-M., Zhou, W.-W., Poyarkov, Jr., N.A., Stuart, B.L., Brown, R.M., Lathrop, A., Wang, Y.-Y., Yuan, Z.-Y., Jiang, K., Hou, M., Chen, H.-M., Suwannapoom, C., Nguyen, S.N., Duong, T.V., Papenfuss, T.J., Murphy, R.W., Zhang, Y.-P. & Che, J. 2017. A novel multilocus phylogenetic estimation reveals unrecognized diversity in Asian horned toads, genus Megophrys sensu lato (Anura: Megophryidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 106: 28–43. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.09.004 Reference page. 
• Chen, J., Poyarkov Jr., N.A., Suwannapoom, C., Lathrop, A., Wu, Y.-H., Zhou, W.-W., Yuan, Z.-Y., Jin, J.-Q., Chen, H.-M., Liu, H.-Q., Nguyen, T.Q., Nguyen, S.N., Duong, T.V., Eto, K., Nishikawa, K., Matsui, M., Orlov, N.L., Stuart, B.L., Brown, R.M., Rowley, J.J.L., Murphy, R.W., Wang, Y.-Y. & Che, J. 2018. Large-scale phylogenetic analyses provide insights into unrecognized diversity and historical biogeography of Asian leaf-litter frogs, genus Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 124: 162–171. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.02.020 Reference page. 
• Liu, Z.-Y., Chen, G.-L., Zhu, T.-Q., Zeng, Z.-C., Lyu, Z.-T., Wang, J., Messenger, K., Greenberg, A.J., Guo, Z.-X., Yang, Z., Shi, S.-H. & Wang, Y.-Y. 2018. Prevalence of cryptic species in morphologically uniform taxa–fast speciation and evolutionary radiation in Asian toads. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 127: 723–731. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.020 Reference page. 
• Li, Y., Zhang, D.-D., Lyu, Z.T., Wang, J., Li, Y.-L., Liu, Z.-Y., Chen, H.-H., Rao, D.-Q., Jin, Z.-F., Zhang, C.-Y. & Wang, Y.-Y. 2020. Review of the genus Brachytarsophrys (Anura: Megophryidae), with revalidation of Brachytarsophrys platyparietus and description of a new species from China. Zoological Research 41(2): 105–122. DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2020.033 Reference page. 
• Lyu, Z.-T., Zeng, Z.-C., Wang, J., Liu, Z.-Y., Huang, Y.-Q., Li, W.-Z. & Wang, Y.-Y. 2021. Four new species of Panophrys (Anura, Megophryidae) from eastern China, with discussion on the recognition of Panophrys as a distinct genus. Zootaxa 4927(1): 9–40. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4927.1.2 Reference page. 

Links

• Frost, D.R. 2021. Megophryidae. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1 (24 July 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: Asian Toads
日本語: コノハガエル科
ไทย: อึ่งกราย

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