Chiromantis Peters, 1854
Chiromantis Peters, 1854, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1854: 626. Type species: Chiromantis xerampelina Peters, 1854, by monotypy.
Chirixalus Boulenger, 1893, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 2, 13: 340. Type species: Chirixalus doriae Boulenger, 1893, by monotypy. Synonymy by 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: 246.
English Names
Foam Nest Frogs (Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 200; Lambiris, 1990 "1989", Monogr. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 10: 139; Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 334; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 456).
Foam-nest Treefrogs (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 131; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 111).
Striped Asian Treefrogs (Chirixalus [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 111).
Burmese Bushfrogs (Chirixalus [no longer recognized]: Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 146).
Asian Treefrogs (Chirixalus [no longer recognized]: Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 29
Distribution
African tropics, south of the Sahara; Southeast Asia (northeastern India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, China); possiby in Bangladesh.
Comment
See Werner, 1923, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 72: 62-66, and accounts for African species in Schiřtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 35-41. Poynton, 2000, Afr. J. Herpetol., 49: 125, suggested that unnamed species of Chiromantis exist in Somalia and that careful systematic studies are needed. The Asian species were formerly assigned to Chirixalus, a taxon that was shown to be paraphyletic with respect to African Chiromantis by 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: 246. This result was corroborated by Wiens, Sukumaran, Pyron, and Brown, 2009, Evolution, 63: 1217-1231. Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 53: 509-522, suggested on the basis of molecular evidence that Chiromantis as currently constructed is paraphyletic with respect to Feihyla. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, did obtain a monophyletic Chiromantis, with somewhat greater taxon and locus sampling in their molecular study; they found Chiromantis as the sister of a taxon of Ghatixalus, a taxon not included by Li et al., 2009.
Contained taxa
- Chiromantis cherrapunjiae (Roonwal and Kripalani, 1966)
- Chiromantis doriae (Boulenger, 1893)
- Chiromantis dudhwaensis (Ray, 1992)
- Chiromantis hansenae (Cochran, 1927)
- Chiromantis kelleri Boettger, 1893
- Chiromantis nongkhorensis (Cochran, 1927)
- Chiromantis petersii Boulenger, 1882
- Chiromantis punctatus (Wilkinson, Win, Thin, Lwin, Shein, and Tun, 2003)
- Chiromantis rufescens (Günther, 1869)
- Chiromantis samkosensis Grismer, Thy, Chav, and Holden, 2007
- Chiromantis senapatiensis (Mathew and Sen, 2009)
- Chiromantis shyamrupus (Chanda and Ghosh, 1989)
- Chiromantis simus (Annandale, 1915)
- Chiromantis vittatus (Boulenger, 1887)
- Chiromantis xerampelina Peters, 1854
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