Stumpffia Boettger, 1881

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

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Stumpffia Boettger, 1881, Zool. Anz., 4: 360. Type species: Stumpffia psologlossa Boettger, 1881, by monotypy.

English Names

Stump-toed Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 93).

Distribution

Madagascar.

Comment

See accounts by Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 105-111, revision by Vences and Glaw, 1991, Acta Biol. Benrodis, 3: 203-219, and accounts by Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 126-131. Wollenberg, Vieites, van der Meijden, Glaw, Cannatella, and Vences, 2008, Evolution, 62: 1890-1907, suggested that Stumpffia is non-monphyletic, with Stumpffia helenae and an unnamed but closely related species forming the sister taxon of Rhombophryne, another piece of "Stumpffia" forming the sister taxon of that inclusive group, and a third piece of Stumpffia forming the sister taxon of Plethodontohyla. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, largely confirmed this arrangement. Megson, Mitchell, Köhler, Marsh, Franzen, Glaw, and D'Cruze, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 31-44, reported two unnamed species from the Ampombofofo area in the extreme north of Madagascar. Köhler, Vences, D'Cruze, and Glaw, 2010, J. Zool., London, 282: 21-38, discussed the molecular and morphological systematics of Stumpffia, noting a number of new and unnamed species.

Contained taxa

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