Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Scythrophrys Lynch, 1971, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 53: 162. Type species: Zachaenus sawayae Cochran, 1953, by original designation.

English Names

Banhado Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 84).

Distribution

Serra do Mar in the states of Paraná and Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Comment

Considered as having uncertain relationships to other genera, according to Heyer, 1983, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 30: 276. Lourenço, Garcia, and Recco-Pimentel, 2003, Genet. Mol. Biol., 26: 139-143, discussed restriction fragment analysis of rDNA and suggested a close relationship with Paratelmatobius. See comment under Paratelmatobius. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed this relationship.

Contained taxa

• Scythrophrys sawayae (Cochran, 1953)

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