Dasypops Miranda-Ribeiro, 1924
Dasypops Miranda-Ribeiro, 1924, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 1: 255. Type species: Dasypops schirchi Miranda-Ribeiro, 1924, by monotypy.
English Names
Rio Mutum Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 89).
Distribution
As for the single species.
Comment
Probably derived from Hypopachus according to Carvalho, 1954, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 555: 16. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, placed Dasypops, within their set of exemplars, as the sister of a group composed of Elachistocleis, Dermatonotus, Hamptophryne, Hypopachus, and Gastrophryne.
Contained taxa
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