Kalophryninae Mivart, 1869
Kalophrynina Mivart, 1869, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1869: 289. Type genus: Kalophrynus Tschudi, 1838.
Kalophryninae — Frost, 2007, Amph. Spec. World Online, vers. 5.0: . new rank by implication of phylogenetic placement of Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297:. and Van Bocxlaer, Roelants, Biju, Nagaraju, and Bossuyt, 2006, PLoS One, 1.
Kalophrynidae — Bossuyt and Roelants, 2009, in Hedges and Kumar (eds.), Timetree of Life: 358.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Southern China to Java and Philippines; Assam, India.
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Microhylinae by Frost, 2007, Amph. Spec. World Online, vers. 5.0, where it had been placed by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 71, on the basis of the phylogenetic placement suggested by Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297, and Van Bocxlaer, Roelants, Biju, Nagaraju, and Bossuyt, 2006, PLoS One, 1. Bossuyt and Roelants, 2009, in Hedges and Kumar (eds.), Timetree of Life: 357-364, considered this taxon a distinct family based on its suggested Mesozoic origin. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, considered Kalophryninae to be the sister taxon of Melanobatrachinae + Asterophryinae.
Contained taxa
- Kalophrynus Tschudi, 1838 (19 sp.)
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