Microhyla

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Microhyla
Microhyla pulchra

Microhyla pulchra

Systematics
without rank: Amphibians (Lissamphibia)
Order : Frog (anura)
Subordination : Neobatrachia
Family : Narrow-mouth frogs (Microhylidae)
Subfamily : Real narrow-mouth frogs (Microhylinae)
Genre : Microhyla
Scientific name
Microhyla
Tschudi , 1838
Microhyla rubra
Microhyla achatina
Microhyla okinavensis
Microhyla heymonsi
Microhyla butleri

Microhyla is a genus of amphibians from the close- mouthed frogfamily(Microhylidae). The genus belongs to the subfamily of narrow-mouthed frogs in the narrower sense (Microhylinae).

description

The pupils are round. The tongue is elliptical, with entire margins and freely liftable at the back. Palatine teeth are missing. There are one or two palatal folds in front of the throat. The eardrum is invisible. The fingers are free. The toes are free or webbed . However, these do not intervene between the metatarses of the 4th and 5th toes. The tips of the fingers and toes are pointed and more or less widened. They have simple, bony terminal phalanges. The precoracoid and the omosternum are absent. The sternum is cartilaginous. The transverse processes of the sacral vertebra are moderately widened.

Occurrence

The genus occurs from northern Pakistan via India and Nepal as well as Bangladesh to Sri Lanka in the south. In Southeast Asia , the genus is distributed from Myanmar through the states of Indochina and the Malay Peninsula to the islands of Sumatra , Borneo , Java and Bali . In East Asia, the distribution area extends from southern China, Taiwan and the Hainan Islands to some islands in the Philippines and the Japanese Ryūkyū Islands .

The little frogs mostly live in the leaf litter on the ground.

Systematics

Internal system

The genus Microhyla was first described by Johann Jakob von Tschudi in 1838. It includes 50 species:

As of September 30, 2019

Microhyla erythropoda Tarkhnishvili, 1994 was placed in the genus Micryletta . Microhyla fowleri Taylor, 1934 was synonymous with Microhyla berdmorei .

etymology

The name is made up of the prefix “Micro-” ( Greek μικρός mikrós"Small") and the name of the related frog genus Hyla . The latter goes back to Hylas , a lover of the hero Heracles.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Nieden: Anura II . In: FE Schulze, W. Kükenthal, K. Heider (Ed.): Das Tierreich . Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin and Leipzig 1926, pp. 27–28.
  2. ↑ a b c S. Li, M. Zhang, N. Xu, J. Lv, J.-p. Jiang, J. Liu, G. Wei, B. Wang: A new species of the genus Microhyla (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from Guizhou Province, China. Zootaxa, 4624, pp. 551-575, 2019
  3. ^ Darrel R. Frost: Microhyla Tschudi, 1838 . In: Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference . Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York 1998-2019, accessed September 30, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Jr., Anna B. Vassilieva, Nikolai L. Orlov, Eduard A. Galoyan, Tran Thi Anh Dao, Le Duong Thi Thuy, Valentina D. Kretova & Peter Geissler: Taxonomy and Distribution of Narrow-Mouth Frogs of the Genus Microhyla Tschudi, 1838 (Anura: Microhylidae) from Vietnam with Descriptions of Five New Species. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 21, 2, pp. 89-148, 2014
  5. ↑ Luan Thanh Nguyen, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Jr., Tiep Tan Nguyen, Tam Ai Nguyen, Vy Huu Tran, Vladislav A. Gorin, Robert W. Murphy, and Sang Ngoc Nguyen: A new species of the genus Microhyla Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from Tay Nguyen Plateau, Central Vietnam. Zootaxa 4543, pp. 549-580, 2019
  6. ↑ SD Biju, S. Garg, RG Kamei & G. Maheswaran: A new Microhyla species (Anura: Microhylidae) from riparian evergreen forest in the eastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh, India. Zootaxa 4674, pp. 100-116, 2019
  7. ↑ a b Nikolay A. Poyarkov Jr., VA Gorin, T. Zaw, Valentina D. Kretova, SS Gogoleva, P. Pawangkhanant, J. Che: On the road to Mandalay: contribution to the Microhyla Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia: Anura : Microhylidae) fauna of Myanmar with description of two new species. Zoological Research 40, 4, pp. 1-33, 2019
  8. ↑ Nayana Wijayathilaka, Sonali Garg, Gayani Senevirathne, Nuwan Karunarathna, SD Biju, Madhava Meegaskumbura: A new species of Microhyla (Anura: Microhylidae) from Sri Lanka: an integrative taxonomic approach. Zootaxa, 4066, 3, pp. 331–342, 2016 doi : 10.11646 / zootaxa.4066.3.9
  9. ↑ a b Mahmudul Hasan, Mohammed Mafizul Islam, Mitsuru Kuramoto, Atsushi Kurabayashi & Masyuki Sumida: Description of two new species of Microhyla (Anura: Microhylidae) from Bangladesh. Zootaxa, 3755, 5, pp. 401-418, January 2014

Web links

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  • Darrel R. Frost: Microhyla Tschudi, 1838 . In: Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference . Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York 1998-2019, accessed September 30, 2019.