Albericus Burton and Zweifel, 1995
Albericus Burton and Zweifel, 1995, Am. Mus. Novit., 3129: 3. Type species: Cophixalus darlingtoni Loveridge, 1948, by original designation.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
New Guinea (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea).
Comment
Most closely related to Choerophryne, according to Burton and Zweifel, 1995, Am. Mus. Novit., 3129: 1. See Menzies, 1999, Aust. J. Zool., 47: 327-360, for review of the genus with description of a number of species, as well as discussion of specimens not allocated to any named species. Sumida, Allison, and Nishioka, 2000, Biochem. Syst. Ecol., 28: 733, disputed the distinctiveness of this taxon on the basis of allozyme distance from Cophixalus. Köhler and Günther, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 47: 353-365, suggested on the basis of molecular evidence that Albericus is monophyletic and the sister taxon of Choerophryne. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences corroborated this result.
Contained taxa
- Albericus alpestris Kraus, 2010
- Albericus brevicrus Günther and Richards, 2012
- Albericus brunhildae Menzies, 1999
- Albericus darlingtoni (Loveridge, 1948)
- Albericus exclamitans Kraus and Allison, 2005
- Albericus fafniri Menzies, 1999
- Albericus gudrunae Menzies, 1999
- Albericus gunnari Menzies, 1999
- Albericus laurini Günther, 2000
- Albericus murritus Kraus and Allison, 2009
- Albericus pandanicolus Günther and Richards, 2012
- Albericus rhenaurum Menzies, 1999
- Albericus sanguinopictus Kraus and Allison, 2005
- Albericus siegfriedi Menzies, 1999
- Albericus swanhildae Menzies, 1999
- Albericus tuberculus (Richards, Johnston, and Burton, 1992)
- Albericus valkuriarum Menzies, 1999
- Albericus variegatus (Van Kampen, 1923)
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