Phyzelaphryninae Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008
Phyzelaphryninae Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 93. Type genus: Phyzelaphryne Heyer, 1977.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Eastern and northeastern Brazil and in the Guiana Shield region in northeastern South America, and in the upper Amazon Basin.
Comment
See comments under Eleutherodactylidae and Eleutherodactylinae. Fouquet, Loebmann, Castroviejo-Fisher, Padial, Orrico, Lyra, Roberto, Kok, Haddad, and Rodrigues, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 65: 547-561, provided a phylogenetic analysis of this clade.
Contained taxa
- Adelophryne Hoogmoed and Lescure, 1984 (7 sp.)
- Phyzelaphryne Heyer, 1977 (1 sp.)
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