Choerophryne Van Kampen, 1914
Choerophryne Van Kampen, 1914, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 37: 376. Type species: Choerophryne proboscidea Van Kampen, 1914 (= Copiula rostellifer Wandolleck, 1911 "1910"), by monotypy.
English Names
Torricelli Mountain Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 88).
Distribution
New Guinea.
Comment
See Menzies and Tyler, 1977, J. Zool., London, 183: 443, for validation of this genus as distinct from Cophixalus (in which synonymy it had been placed by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 177). Kraus and Allison, 2001, Herpetologica, 57: 214-232, reviewed the systematics of the genus and provided a key to the species as well as noting that populations in the Cyclops Mts. And Yapen Island of Papua, Indonesia, are not assigned to species. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 181-182, provided a key and brief accounts for the species. Köhler and Günther, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 47: 353-365, suggested on the basis of molecular evidence that Choerophryne is monophyletic and the sister taxon of Albericus. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed this result.
Contained taxa
- Choerophryne allisoni Richards and Burton, 2003
- Choerophryne amomani Günther, 2008
- Choerophryne arndtorum Günther, 2008
- Choerophryne burtoni Richards, Dahl, and Hiaso, 2007
- Choerophryne longirostris Kraus and Allison, 2001
- Choerophryne microps Günther, 2008
- Choerophryne nigrescens Günther, 2008
- Choerophryne proboscidea Van Kampen, 1914
- Choerophryne rostellifer (Wandolleck, 1911)
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