Rhombophryne Boettger, 1880

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Cophylinae > Genus: Rhombophryne

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Rhombophryne Boettger, 1880, Zool. Anz., 3: 567. Type species: Rhombophryne testudo Boettger, 1880, by monotypy.

English Names

Burrowing Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 92).

Distribution

Madagascar.

Comment

See accounts by Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 91-92, and Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 118-119. Andreone and Randrianirina, 2008, Zootaxa, 1812: 46-48, reported a unnamed (or unidentified) specimen of Rhombophryne from the Parc National Tsingy de Bemaraha in western Madagascar, extending the range of the genus from central and eastern Madagascar. Wollenberg, Vieites, van der Meijden, Glaw, Cannatella, and Vences, 2008, Evolution, 62: 1890-1907, suggested that Stumpffia helenae and an unnamed but closely related species is forms the sister taxon of Rhombophryne. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, suggested that Rhombophryne is the sister taxon of Stumpffia helenae (rendering Stumpffia polyphyletic) and together the sister of one component of Plethodontohyla (see that generic account).

Contained taxa

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