Xanthophryne Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Giri, Loader, and Bossuyt, 2009
Xanthophryne Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Giri, Loader, and Bossuyt, 2009, BMC Res. Notes, 2 (241): 3. Type species: Bufo koynayensis Soman, 1963, by original designation.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Amboli and Koyna in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, southern India.
Comment
Van Bocxlaer, Loader, Roelants, Biju, Menegon, and Bossuyt, 2010, Science, 327: 679-682, suggested that Xanthophryne is the sister taxon of Duttaphrynus. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, suggested that Xanthophryne renders Duttaphrynus paraphyletic (although this is difficult to see because the authors explicitly adopted a non-monophyletic and out-dated taxonomy).
Contained taxa
- Xanthophryne koynayensis (Soman, 1963)
- Xanthophryne tigerina Biju, Van Bocxlaer, Giri, Loader, and Bossuyt, 2009
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