Hyophryne Carvalho, 1954, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 555: 4. Type species: Hyophryne histrio Carvalho, 1954, by original designation.
Yellow Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 90).
As for the single species.
Probably derived from Stereocyclops according to Carvalho, 1954, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 555: 6. Formerly in the New World component of Microhylinae; 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: 225, did not address this taxon in their study, and they removed Hyophryne from any subfamily pending resolution of its phylogenetic placement. Van der Meijden, Vences, Hoegg, Boistel, Channing, and Meyer, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 44: 1017-1030, did not address this taxon. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, assigned this taxon to Gastrophryninae without comment.
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