Ansonia Stoliczka, 1870

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Ansonia

Ansonia Stoliczka, 1870, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1870: 103. Stoliczka, 1870, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 39: 152. Type species: Ansonia penangensis Stoliczka, 1870, by monotypy.

English Names

Stream Toads (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 38).

Distribution

South India; northern Thailand; Malay Peninsula; Tioman Is.; Borneo; Mindanao (Philippines).

Comment

Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 363, suggested, on the basis of DNA sequence data, that Ansonia is related to the African genera Nectophrynoides and Didynamipus. Graybeal and Cannatella, 1995, Herpetologica, 51: 121, suggested evidence supporting the monophyly of this taxon. See Inger, 1960, Fieldiana, Zool., 39: 473-503, for discussion, key, and accounts. Dring, 1979, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Zool., 34: 181-244, discussed Malayan populations. See Daniel, 1963, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 60: 430-431, for characterizations of, and key to, species of India. Inger and Dring, 1988, Malayan Nat. J., 41: 461-471, provided accounts for the species allied to Ansonia leptopus (Ansonia leptopus, Ansonia longidigita, and Ansonia spinulifer). Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 27-30, provided accounts and keys to the species of the Sunda Shelf. Malkmus, Manthey, Vogel, Hoffmann, and Kosuch, 2002, Amph. Rept. Mount Kinabalu: 63-75, provided a key to the species of Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Grismer, 2006, Zootaxa, 1327: 1327: 1-27, discussed the species of West Malaysia. Grismer, 2006, Herpetologica, 62: 466-475, provided comparative morphological data for the species. Smith and Chiszar, 2006, Herpetol. Conserv. Biol., 1: 6-8, implied that this taxon should be considered a subgenus of Bufo; see comment under Bufonidae. Wood, Grismer, Norhayati, and Senawi, 2008, Herpetologica, 64: 321-340, provided a key to the species of West Malaysia. Van Bocxlaer, Biju, Loader, and Bossuyt, 2009, BMC Evol. Biol., 9 (e131): 1-10, provided evidence that Ansonia is polyphyletic, with Ansonia ornata falling as the sister taxon of a clade composed of Duttaphrynus + Adenomus + "Pedostibes" tuberculosus and with Pedostibes proper forming a monophyletic group as the sister taxon of Pelophryne. Haas, Wolter, Hertwig, and Das, 2009, Zootaxa, 2302: 1-18, provided a larval key to the species of Borneo. Matsui, Tominaga, Liu, Khonsue, Grismer, Diesmos, Das, Sudin, Yambun, Yong, Sukumaran, and Brown, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 54: 561-570, reported on molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the genus and suggested its monophyly, employing Dendrobates (Dendrobatidae) as the single out-taxon, although the species suggested by Van Bocxlaer, Biju, Loader, and Bossuyt, 2009, BMC Evol. Biol., 9 (e131): 1-10, to render the genus paraphyletic, "Ansonia" ornata, was not included in their analysis. This species was subsequently placed in the genus Ghatophryne (see generic account). The results otherwise were roughly comparable, although taxon sampling in the Matsui et al (2010) was substantially denser. Van Bocxlaer, Loader, Roelants, Biju, Menegon, and Bossuyt, 2010, Science, 327: 679-682, provided a dense analysis and found Ansonia (sensu stricto) to form the sister taxon of Pelophryne. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed the monophyly of this taxon, its placement as the sister taxon of Pelophryne, and provided a tree of exemplar species. Sanguila, Siler, Diesmos, Nuñeza, and Brown, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 333-350, reported on the phylogeography of species on Mindanao.

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