Cophyla Boettger, 1880
Cophyla Boettger, 1880, Zool. Anz., 3: 281. Type species: Cophyla phyllodactyla Boettger, 1880, by monotypy.
English Names
Whistling Treefrogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 89).
Distribution
Madagascar.
Comment
See account by Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 88-90. Vences, Andreone, and Glaw, 2005, Afr. Zool., 40: 148, noted that the distinctiveness of this genus from Platypelis is arguable. Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 138-139, provided accounts. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, suggested that Cophyla is the sister taxon of one clade of Plethodontohyla (see comment under that generic account).
Contained taxa
- Cophyla berara Vences, Andreone, and Glaw, 2005
- Cophyla occultans (Glaw and Vences, 1992)
- Cophyla phyllodactyla Boettger, 1880
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