Bryophryne Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008
Bryophryne Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 99. Type species: Phrynopus cophites Lynch, 1975, by original designation.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Departamento Cusco, Peru, 3400-3663 m elevation.
Comment
Partitioned from Phrynopus on phylogenetic grounds by Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 99, from which it is geographically separated by the Rio Apurimac valley according to Lehr and Catenazzi, 2009, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 4: 125-138, who mapped the type localities of the species know in August, 2009. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, suggested that Bryophryne is the sister taxon of Holoaden.
Contained taxa
- Bryophryne abramalagae Lehr and Catenazzi, 2010
- Bryophryne bustamantei (Chaparro, De la Riva, Padial, Ochoa, and Lehr, 2007)
- Bryophryne cophites (Lynch, 1975)
- Bryophryne flammiventris Lehr and Catenazzi, 2010
- Bryophryne gymnotis Lehr and Catenazzi, 2009
- Bryophryne hanssaueri Lehr and Catenazzi, 2009
- Bryophryne nubilosus Lehr and Catenazzi, 2008
- Bryophryne zonalis Lehr and Catenazzi, 2009
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