Melanophryne Lehr and Trueb, 2007
Melanophryne Lehr and Trueb, 2007, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 149: 585. Type species: Phrynopus carpish Lehr, Rodríguez, and Córdova, 2002, by original designation.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Departments of Pasco and Huánuco, Peru.
Comment
Stated in the original to be in Microhylinae, but posited to share characteristics with members of Gastrophryninae. 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: 581, placed this taxon within Gastrophryninae without comment. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, assigned this taxon to Gastrophryninae without comment. Trueb, Diaz, and Blackburn, 2011, Phyllomedusa, 10: 99-135. cited unpublished data of Greenbaum, 2006, Unpubl. PhD Dissert., Univ. Kansas:, as evidence of the placement of this genus in Gastrophryninae.
Contained taxa
- Melanophryne barbatula Lehr and Trueb, 2007
- Melanophryne carpish (Lehr, Rodriguez, and Córdova, 2002)
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