Plethodontohyla

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Plethodontohyla
Plethodontohyla mihanika

Plethodontohyla mihanika

Systematics
without rank: Amphibians (Lissamphibia)
Order : Frog (anura)
Subordination : Neobatrachia
Family : Narrow-mouth frogs (Microhylidae)
Subfamily : Madagascar narrow -mouth frogs (Cophylinae)
Genre : Plethodontohyla
Scientific name
Plethodontohyla
Boulenger , 1882
Tadpoles of plethodontohyla mihanika in a tree hollow

Plethodontohyla is a genus of the frog from the subfamily of the Madagascar narrow -mouth frogs (Cophylinae) in the family of the narrow-mouth frogs (Microhylidae).

description

The pupils are vertical. The tongue is oval, with entire margins and freely liftable at the back. The palatal teeth are arranged in a long transverse row behind the choans . The eardrum can be seen more or less indistinctly. The fingers are free. The toes are free or to the base by webbed connected. These do not intervene between the metatarsi of the 4th and 5th toes. The tips of the fingers and toes are widened to form distinct adhesive discs and have T-shaped end phalanges. The coracoid are strong. The precoracoid and the omosternum are absent. The sternum is very small and cartilaginous. The transverse processes of the sacral vertebra are slightly widened.

Occurrence

The genus is endemic to Madagascar .

Systematics

The genus Plethodontohyla was first described by George Albert Boulenger in 1882 . It includes 11 types:

As of March 20, 2019

Rhombophryne matavy D'Cruze, Köhler, Vences & Glaw, 2010 was placed in the genus Plethodontohyla in 2015 , but left with Rhombophryne by other authors .

  • After a revision in 2018, Rhombophryne alluaudi (Mocquard, 1901) is now located as Plethodontohyla alluaudi in the genus Plethodontohyla . In the same revision, Plethodontohyla laevis was re-established as a separate species, having been regarded as a synonym of Plethodontohyla alluaudi since 1991 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz Nieden: Anura II. In: FE Schulze, Willy Kükenthal, K. Heider (Eds.): Das Tierreich, Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin and Leipzig 1926, pp. 90–91.
  2. ^ A b Darrel R. Frost: Plethodontohyla Boulenger, 1882 . In: Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference . Version 6.0, American Museum of Natural History, New York 1998-2015, accessed October 15, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c A. Bellati, MD Scherz, S. Megson, SH Roberts, F. Andreone, GM Rosa, J. Noël, JE Randrianirina, M. Fasola, F. Glaw, and A. Crottini: 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, pp. 109-135, 2018.
  4. ↑ Pedro LV Peloso, Darrel R. Frost, Stephen J. Richards, Miguel T. Rodrigues, Stephen Donnellan, Masafumi Matsui, Cristopher J. Raxworthy, S. Das Biju, Emily Moriarty Lemmon, Alan R. Lemmon & Ward C. Wheeler: The impact of anchored phylogenomics and taxon sampling on phylogenetic inference in narrow-mouthed frogs (Anura, Microhylidae). Cladistics, 3, 1-28, March 2015 doi : 10.1111 / cla.12118

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