Gastrophrynoides Noble, 1926
Gastrophrynoides Noble, 1926, Am. Mus. Novit., 212: 22. Type species: Engystoma borneense Boulenger, 1897, by monotypy.
English Names
Borneo Narrowmouth Toads (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 89).
Distribution
Southern Peninsular Malaysia, and in Bornean Malaysia in Sarawak and Sabah; presumably will be found in northwestern Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Comment
Formerly in the Old 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 Gastrophrynoides 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. Matsui, Hamidy, Belabut, Ahmad, Panha, Sudin, Khonsue, Oh, Yong, Jiang, and Nishikawa, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 167-176, suggested on the basis of mtDNA phylogenetic analysis that Gastrophrynoides is related to Asterophryinae (their exemplar being Oreophryne monticola). Kurabayashi, Matsui, Belabut, Yong, Ahmad, Sudin, Kuramoto, Hamidy, and Sumida, 2011, BMC Evol. Biol., 11(175): 175 (1-12), formally transferred Gastrophrynoides to Asterophryinae as the most basal clade.
Contained taxa
- Gastrophrynoides borneensis (Boulenger, 1897)
- Gastrophrynoides immaculatus Chan, Grismer, Norhayati, and Daicus, 2009
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