Brachytarsophrys Tian and Hu, 1983
Brachytarsophrys Tian and Hu, 1983, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 2 (2): 42, 47. Type species: Leptobrachium carinensis Boulenger, 1899, by original designation.
Brachytarsophrys — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 23. Treatment as a subgenus of Megophrys.
English Names
Karin Hills Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 85).
Distribution
Southern China to southern Myanmar and adjacent northern Thailand to northern Vietnam.
Comment
Considered a subgenus of Megophrys by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 23, but retained as a genus by Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 116. Rao and Yang, 1997, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 7: 103-107, discussed systematics and distribution of the species. Xie and Wang, 2000, Cultum Herpetol. Sinica, 8: 356-370, discussed evidence of the monophyly of this taxon as well as character conflict regarding the monophyly of this taxon. See comment under Xenophrys. Xu, 2005, Sichuan J. Zool., 24: 337-339, rejected this taxon on karyological grounds. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 329-346, provided a key and accounts for the Chinese species. See comment under Megophryidae. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, noted the paraphyly of Xenophrys with respect to this taxon, with such species as Xenophrys shapingensis and Xenophrys nankiangensis being more closely related to Brachytarsophrys than to other species of Xenophrys.
Contained taxa
- Brachytarsophrys carinense (Boulenger, 1889)
- Brachytarsophrys chuannanensis Fei, Ye, and Huang, 2001
- Brachytarsophrys feae (Boulenger, 1887)
- Brachytarsophrys intermedia (Smith, 1921)
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