Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Chaperina Mocquard, 1892, Naturaliste, Paris, Ser. 2, 6: 35. Type species: Chaperina fusca Mocquard, 1892, by monotypy.

English Names

Thorny Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 88).

Distribution

As for the single species.

Comment

Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, suggested Chaperina to be the sister taxon of a group composed of Glyphoglossus, Calluella, and Microhyla.

Contained taxa

• Chaperina fusca Mocquard, 1892

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