Chiasmocleis Méhely, 1904
Chiasmocleis Méhely, 1904, Ann. Hist. Nat. Mus. Natl. Hungarici, 2: 210. Type species: Engystoma albopunctatum Boettger, 1885, by monotypy.
Nectodactylus Miranda-Ribeiro, 1924, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 1: 256. Type species: Nectodactylus spinulosus Miranda-Ribeiro, 1924, by monotypy. Synonymy by Parker, 1927, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 187: 2.
English Names
Humming Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 88).
Distribution
Panama and tropical South America, north and east of the Andes.
Comment
Dunn, 1949, Am. Mus. Novit., 1419: 5, included a key to the species then known. Duellman, 1978, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 65: 187-190, compared three sympatric species. Walker and Duellman, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 26: 5, commented on the morphological heterogeneity encompassed in this nominal genus (see comment under Chiasmocleis anatipes). Cruz, Caramaschi, and Izecksohn, 1997, Alytes, 15: 49-71, discussed the systematics of the Brazilian representatives. Formerly in the New World component of Microhylinae; 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: 225, removed Chiasmocleis from any subfamily pending resolution of its phylogenetic placement. Van der Meijden, Vences, Hoegg, Boistel, Channing, and Meyer, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 44: 1017-1030, placed Chiasmocleis in their Gastrophryninae on the basis of DNA sequence data. Funk and Cannatella, 2009, Zootaxa, 2247: 37-50, provided a comparison of species from the western Amazon region. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, suggested a basal position of Chiasmocleis in the Gastrophryninae.
Contained taxa
- Chiasmocleis alagoana Cruz, Caramaschi, and Freire, 1999
- Chiasmocleis albopunctata (Boettger, 1885)
- Chiasmocleis anatipes Walker and Duellman, 1974
- Chiasmocleis atlantica Cruz, Caramaschi, and Izecksohn, 1997
- Chiasmocleis avilapiresae Peloso and Sturaro, 2008
- Chiasmocleis bassleri Dunn, 1949
- Chiasmocleis capixaba Cruz, Caramaschi, and Izecksohn, 1997
- Chiasmocleis carvalhoi Cruz, Caramaschi, and Izecksohn, 1997
- Chiasmocleis centralis Bokermann, 1952
- Chiasmocleis cordeiroi Caramaschi and Pimenta, 2003
- Chiasmocleis crucis Caramaschi and Pimenta, 2003
- Chiasmocleis devriesi Funk and Cannatella, 2009
- Chiasmocleis gnoma Canedo, Dixo, and Pombal, 2004
- Chiasmocleis hudsoni Parker, 1940
- Chiasmocleis jimi Caramaschi and Cruz, 2001
- Chiasmocleis leucosticta (Boulenger, 1888)
- Chiasmocleis magnova Moravec and Köhler, 2007
- Chiasmocleis mantiqueira Cruz, Feio, and Cassini, 2007
- Chiasmocleis mehelyi Caramaschi and Cruz, 1997
- Chiasmocleis panamensis Dunn, Trapido, and Evans, 1948
- Chiasmocleis sapiranga Cruz, Caramaschi, and Napoli, 2007
- Chiasmocleis schubarti Bokermann, 1952
- Chiasmocleis shudikarensis Dunn, 1949
- Chiasmocleis supercilialbus Morales and McDiarmid, 2009
- Chiasmocleis ventrimaculata (Andersson, 1945)
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