Myobatrachus Schlegel, 1850
Myobatrachus Schlegel In Gray, 1850, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1850: 9. Type species: Myobatrachus paradoxus Schlegel, 1850 (= Breviceps gouldii Gray, 1841), by monotypy.
Myiobatrachus — Schlegel, 1858, Handl. Dierkd., 2: 59. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Chelydobatrachus Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 53. Type species: Breviceps gouldii Gray, 1841, by monotypy. Synonymy by Peters, 1867, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1867: 37; Günther, 1868, Zool. Rec., 4: 146; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 328.
English Names
Turtle Frogs (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 104; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 95).
Distribution
As for the single species.
Comment
See comments under Arenophryne and Metacrinia.
Contained taxa
External Links
Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.
- For additional sources of information from other sites search Google
- For images search Arkive, CalPhoto Images and Google Images
- To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
