Micrixalus Boulenger, 1888
Micrixalus Boulenger, 1888, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1888: 205. Type species: Ixalus fuscus Boulenger, 1882, by subsequent designation of Myers, 1942, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 55: 74.
English Names
Tropical Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 102).
Distribution
India.
Comment
Pillai, 1978, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., Ser. B, 87: 173-177, supplied a key to the species of India and Sri Lanka. See comment under Platymantis liui. In the subfamily Raninae, tribe Ranini of Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 39, who (pp. 51-55) discussed and redefined the taxon. See comment under Ingerana. Placed as the sole member of the Micrixalinae by Dubois, Ohler, and Biju, 2001, Alytes, 19: 54.
Contained taxa
- Micrixalus elegans (Rao, 1937)
- Micrixalus fuscus (Boulenger, 1882)
- Micrixalus gadgili Pillai and Pattabiraman, 1990
- Micrixalus kottigeharensis (Rao, 1937)
- Micrixalus narainensis (Rao, 1937)
- Micrixalus nudis Pillai, 1978
- Micrixalus phyllophilus (Jerdon, 1854)
- Micrixalus saxicola (Jerdon, 1854)
- Micrixalus silvaticus (Boulenger, 1882)
- Micrixalus swamianus (Rao, 1937)
- Micrixalus thampii Pillai, 1981
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