Austrochaperina Fry, 1912
Austrochaperina Fry, 1912, Rec. Aust. Mus., 9: 93. Type species: Austrochaperina robusta Fry, 1912, by original designation.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Australia, New Guinea, and New Britain I.
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Sphenophryne by Zweifel, 2000, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 253: 9, where it had been placed by Nieden, 1926, Das Tierreich, 49: 50. Revision in Zweifel, 2000, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 253: 1-130. Hoskin, 2004, Aust. J. Zool., 52: 240, provided a molecular tree of the Australian species. Köhler and Günther, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 47: 353-365, suggested that Austrochaperina is not monophyletic, with each of two monophyletic units of "Austrochaperina" most closely related to pieces of an equally nonmonophyletic "Copiula". Hoskin, 2008, Mem. Queensland Mus., 52: 233-237, provided a key to the species of Australia. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences did not refute this result due to decreased taxon sampling.
Contained taxa
- Austrochaperina adamantina Zweifel, 2000
- Austrochaperina adelphe (Zweifel, 1985)
- Austrochaperina aquilonia Zweifel, 2000
- Austrochaperina archboldi Zweifel, 2000
- Austrochaperina basipalmata (Van Kampen, 1906)
- Austrochaperina blumi Zweifel, 2000
- Austrochaperina brevipes (Boulenger, 1897)
- Austrochaperina derongo Zweifel, 2000
- Austrochaperina fryi (Zweifel, 1962)
- Austrochaperina gracilipes Fry, 1912
- Austrochaperina guttata Zweifel, 2000
- Austrochaperina hooglandi (Zweifel, 1967)
- Austrochaperina kosarek Zweifel, 2000
- Austrochaperina macrorhyncha (Van Kampen, 1906)
- Austrochaperina mehelyi (Parker, 1934)
- Austrochaperina minutissima Günther, 2009
- Austrochaperina novaebritanniae Zweifel, 2000
- Austrochaperina palmipes (Zweifel, 1956)
- Austrochaperina parkeri Zweifel, 2000
- Austrochaperina pluvialis (Zweifel, 1965)
- Austrochaperina polysticta (Méhely, 1901)
- Austrochaperina rivularis Zweifel, 2000
- Austrochaperina robusta Fry, 1912
- Austrochaperina septentrionalis Allison and Kraus, 2003
- Austrochaperina yelaensis Zweifel, 2000
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