Euphlyctis Fitzinger, 1843

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dicroglossidae > Subfamily: Dicroglossinae > Genus: Euphlyctis

Euphlyctis Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 31. Type species: Rana leschenaultii Duméril and Bibron, 1841 (= Rana cyanophlyctis Schneider, 1799), by original designation.

Phrynoderma Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 31. Type species: Rana cutipora Duméril and Bibron, 1841 (= Rana hexadactyla), by original designation. Preoccupied by Phrynoderma Sturm, 1828, Deutschl. Fauna, Amph.: 147. Euphlyctis given priority over Phrynoderma by action of first revisor, Dubois, 1975, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 3, Zool., 324: 1112.

Dicroglossus Günther, 1860, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1860: 158. Type species: Dicroglossus adolfi Günther, 1860, by monotypy. Synonymy with Rana by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 7, and Myers, 1942, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 55: 49-55; (with Euphlyctis) by Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 240.

English Names

Five-fingered Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 98).

Distribution

Northwestern Africa, southern Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan and India to Afghanistan, Nepal, Malaya, and Sri Lanka.

Comment

Treated as a subgenus of Rana by Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 233. First ranked in modern times as a genus by Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 27: 124, this arrangement followed by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 314. Grosjean, Vences, and Dubois, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 171-181, regarded on the basis of DNA sequence data that Euphlyctis (monophyly assumed) is the sister taxon of Hoplobatrachus, with Fejervarya, Sphaeroteca, Nannophrys and Limnonectes forming more distant relations. 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: 136, also regarded Euphlyctis as the sister taxon of Hoplobatrachus. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences confirmed the monophyly of this taxon, its position as sister- of Hoplobatrachus, and a phylogenetic estimate for exemplar species.

Contained taxa

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