Pseudophilautus Laurent, 1943

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Pseudophilautus

Pseudophilautus Laurent, 1943, Bull. Mus. R. Hist. Nat. Belg., 19: 2. Type species: Ixalus temporalis Günther, 1864, by original designation.

Kirtixalus Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 72. Type species: Polypedates microtympanum Günther, 1858, by original designation. Name proposed as a subgenus of Philautus. Synonymy by Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 53: 510.

Kirtixalus — Yu, Rao, Zhang, and Yang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 50: 578. Recognition at generic rank.

English Names

Shrub-frogs (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2005, Raffles Bull. Zool., Suppl., 12: 163 [as Philautus]).

Kirtisinghe's Oriental Shrub Frogs (Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 85).

Distribution

Sri Lanka, and the Western Ghats of southwestern India.

Comment

Pseudophilautus was resurrected from the synonymy of Philautus by Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 53: 510, where it was placed by Inger in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 439; Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 6. Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta, and Bossuyt, 2010, Curr. Sci., Bangalore, 98: 1120, restricted the concept of Pseudophilautus to the predominantly Sri Lankan clade, and transferred its putative sister taxon, the monophyletic group of India to southern China and Vietnam, to Raorchestes. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, provided a tree of examplar species as part of their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed the placement of a monophyletic Pseudophilautus as the sister taxon of Raorchestes, but employed an antiquated taxonomy that obscures this result.

Contained taxa

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