Glyphoglossus Günther, 1869
Glyphoglossus Günther, 1869 "1868", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868: 483. Type species: Glyphoglossus molossus Günther, 1869 "1868", by monotypy.
English Names
Balloon Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 89).
Distribution
As for the single species.
Comment
See Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 575-578. Formerly in the Old World component of Microhylinae; 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: 225, removed Glyphoglossus from any subfamily pending resolution of its phylogenetic placement. Transferred to Microhylinae by Van Bocxlaer, Roelants, Biju, Nagaraju, and Bossuyt, 2006, PLoS One, 1: 1-6. Matsui, Hamidy, Belabut, Ahmad, Panha, Sudin, Khonsue, Oh, Yong, Jiang, and Nishikawa, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 167-176, suggested the possibility that this taxon may be imbedded within Calluella on the basis of mtDNA phylogenetic analysis. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, suggested Glyphoglossus to be the sister taxon of Calluella.
Contained taxa
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