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Pherohapsis Zweifel, 1972

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Asterophryinae > Genus: Pherohapsis

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Pherohapsis Zweifel, 1972, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 148: 456. Type species: Pherohapsis menziesi Zweifel, 1972, by original designation.

English Names

School Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 91).

Distribution

As for the single species.

Comment

Köhler and Günther, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 47: 353-365, were unable to include this taxon in their molecular study of Asterophryinae systematics. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, did not address this taxon.

Contained taxa

  • Pherohapsis menziesi Zweifel, 1972

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