Mantophryne Boulenger, 1897
Mantophryne Boulenger, 1897, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 19: 12. Type species: Mantophryne lateralis Boulenger, 1897, by monotypy.
English Names
Archipelago Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 90).
Distribution
New Guinea and Louisiade Archipelago.
Comment
Resurrected from the synonymy of Phrynomantis (= Callulops of this catalogue) by Burton, 1986, Rec. S. Aust. Mus., 19: 405-450, where it had been placed by Zweifel, 1972, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 148: 476. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 252-254, provided a key and brief accounts for the species. Köhler and Günther, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 47: 353-365, were not able to include this taxon in their molecular analysis of Asterophryinae. Günther, Stelbrink, and von Rintelen, 2010, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 86: 245-256, did include Mantophryne in their molecular analysis and placed it as the sister taxon of Hylophorbus. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, did not address this taxon.
Contained taxa
- Mantophryne axanthogaster Kraus and Allison, 2009
- Mantophryne infulata (Zweifel, 1972)
- Mantophryne lateralis Boulenger, 1897
- Mantophryne louisiadensis (Parker, 1934)
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