Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Boophis Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 36, 76. Type species: Boophis goudotii Tschudi, 1838, by monotypy.

Buccinator Gistel, 1848, Naturgesch. Thierr.: xi. Substitute name for Boophis Tschudi, 1838.

Sahona Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 242. Type species: Polypedates tephraeomystax Duméril, 1853, by original designation. Coined as a subgenus of Boophis.

Boophis — Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 242. Recognition of a subgenus, Boophis, the sister taxon of Sahona Glaw and Vences, 2006.

English Names

Bright-eyed Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 110).

Distribution

Madagascar and Mayotte.

Comment

See Blommers-Schlösser, 1979, Bijdr. Dierkd., 49: 261-312, for a revision and definition of species groups, and synonymies for several species. Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 59-78, provided synonymies for several species. See Blommers-Schlösser, 1978, Genetica, 48: 23-40, for karyotypes. Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 275-342, reviewed the genus and provided synonymies. See comment under Mantidactylus leucomaculatus. Glaw, Vences, Andreone, and Vallan, 2001, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 133: 495-529, defined and revised the Boophis majori group, which, with the exception of the redefinition of Boophis difficilis as a junior synonym of Boophis tephraeomystax is more-or-less identical with the Boophis difficilis group of previous authors. Vences, Glaw, Andreone, Jesu, and Schimmenti, 2002, Bijdr. Dierkd., 70: 191-212, suggested that Boophis is deeply paraphyletic with respect to Mantidactylus, Laliostoma, and Aglyptodactylus, with Boophis tephraeomystax being the closest related of Laliostoma plus Aglyptodactylus, Boophis guibei being the closest relative of Mantidactylus (also paraphyletic) and Mantella, and with Boophis madagascariensis being outside of other Boophis plus Laliostoma, Mantidactylus, and Mantella. Vences and Glaw, 2002, Tropical Zool., 15: 141-163, discussed the Boophis rappiodes group (Boophis viridis, Boophis rappiodes, Boophis erythrodactylus, Boophis bottae, and Boophis tasymena). Vences and Glaw, 2005, Afr. J. Herpetol., 54: 79, partitioned the former Boophis rappiodes group into a smaller Boophis rappiodes group and Boophis mandraka group, and provided a molecular tree for the Boophis mandraka group. Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 236-253, provided evidence for Boophinae/Boophis containing two monophyletic subgenera, Boophis and Sahona (former Boophis tephraeomystax group) not in the synonymies; they also defined the Boophis albipunctatus group. Vences, Köhler, Crottini, and Glaw, 2010, Bonn Zool. Bull., 57: 241-255, reported on molecular phylogenetics of the Boophis goudoti group. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, provided a tree of Boophis exemplars based on Genbank sequences as part of a larger study. Randrianiaina, Strauss, Glos, and Vences, 2012, ZooKeys, 178: 59-124, discussed comparative larval morphology and noted a considerably number of misidentifications of larvae in the literature.

Contained taxa

• Boophis albilabris (Boulenger, 1888)
• Boophis albipunctatus Glaw and Thiesmeier, 1993
• Boophis andohahela Andreone, Nincheri, and Piazza, 1995
• Boophis andrangoloaka (Ahl, 1928)
• Boophis andreonei Glaw and Vences, 1994
• Boophis anjanaharibeensis Andreone, 1996
• Boophis ankaratra Andreone, 1993
• Boophis arcanus Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, and Vences, 2010
• Boophis axelmeyeri Vences, Andreone, and Vieites, 2005
• Boophis baetkei Köhler, Glaw, and Vences, 2008
• Boophis blommersae Glaw and Vences, 1994
• Boophis boehmei Glaw and Vences, 1992
• Boophis bottae Vences and Glaw, 2002
• Boophis brachychir (Boettger, 1882)
• Boophis burgeri Glaw and Vences, 1994
• Boophis calcaratus Vallan, Vences, and Glaw, 2010
• Boophis doulioti (Angel, 1934)
• Boophis elenae Andreone, 1993
• Boophis englaenderi Glaw and Vences, 1994
• Boophis entingae Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, and Vences, 2010
• Boophis erythrodactylus (Guibé, 1953)
• Boophis fayi Köhler, Glaw, Rosa, Gehring, Pabijan, Andreone, and Vences, 2011
• Boophis feonnyala Glaw, Vences, Andreone, and Vallan, 2001
• Boophis goudotii Tschudi, 1838
• Boophis guibei (McCarthy, 1978)
• Boophis haematopus Glaw, Vences, Andreone, and Vallan, 2001
• Boophis haingana Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, and Vences, 2010
• Boophis idae (Steindachner, 1867)
• Boophis jaegeri Glaw and Vences, 1992
• Boophis laurenti Guibé, 1947
• Boophis liami Vallan, Vences, and Glaw, 2003
• Boophis lichenoides Vallan, Glaw, Andreone, and Cadle, 1998
• Boophis lilianae Köhler, Glaw, and Vences, 2008
• Boophis luciae Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, and Vences, 2010
• Boophis luteus (Boulenger, 1882)
• Boophis madagascariensis (Peters, 1874)
• Boophis majori (Boulenger, 1896)
• Boophis mandraka Blommers-Schlösser, 1979
• Boophis marojezensis Glaw and Vences, 1994
• Boophis miadana Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, and Vences, 2010
• Boophis microtympanum (Boettger, 1881)
• Boophis miniatus (Mocquard, 1902)
• Boophis narinsi Vences, Gehara, Köhler, and Glaw, 2012
• Boophis obscurus (Boettger, 1913)
• Boophis occidentalis Glaw and Vences, 1994
• Boophis opisthodon (Boulenger, 1888)
• Boophis pauliani (Guibé, 1953)
• Boophis periegetes Cadle, 1995
• Boophis picturatus Glaw, Vences, Andreone, and Vallan, 2001
• Boophis piperatus Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, and Vences, 2010
• Boophis popi Köhler, Glaw, Rosa, Gehring, Pabijan, Andreone, and Vences, 2011
• Boophis praedictus Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, and Vences, 2010
• Boophis pyrrhus Glaw, Vences, Andreone, and Vallan, 2001
• Boophis quasiboehmei Vences, Köhler, Crottini, and Glaw, 2010
• Boophis rappiodes (Ahl, 1928)
• Boophis reticulatus Blommers-Schlösser, 1979
• Boophis rhodoscelis (Boulenger, 1882)
• Boophis roseipalmatus Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, and Vences, 2010
• Boophis rufioculis Glaw and Vences, 1997
• Boophis sambirano Vences and Glaw, 2005
• Boophis sandrae Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, and Vences, 2010
• Boophis schuboeae Glaw and Vences, 2002
• Boophis septentrionalis Glaw and Vences, 1994
• Boophis sibilans Glaw and Thiesmeier, 1993
• Boophis solomaso Vallan, Vences, and Glaw, 2003
• Boophis spinophis Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, and Vences, 2010
• Boophis tampoka Köhler, Glaw, and Vences, 2008
• Boophis tasymena Vences and Glaw, 2002
• Boophis tephraeomystax (Duméril, 1853)
• Boophis tsilomaro Vences, Andreone, Glos, and Glaw, 2010
• Boophis ulftunni Wollenberg, Andreone, Glaw, and Vences, 2008
• Boophis viridis Blommers-Schlösser, 1979
• Boophis vittatus Glaw, Vences, Andreone, and Vallan, 2001
• Boophis williamsi (Guibé, 1974)
• Boophis xerophilus Glaw and Vences, 1997

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