Ctenophryne Mocquard, 1904
Ctenophryne Mocquard, 1904, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, 10: 308. Type species: Ctenophryne geayi Mocquard, 1904, by monotypy.
English Names
Egg Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 89).
Distribution
Guianian and Amazonian South America; northwestern Colombia.
Comment
Probably derived from Stereocyclops according to Carvalho, 1954, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 555: 4. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, suggested that Ctenophryne is the sister taxon of Nelsonophryne.
Contained taxa
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