Microhyla Tschudi, 1838

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae > Genus: Microhyla

Microhyla Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 71. Type species: "Hylaplesia achatina Boie, 1827" (nomen nudum) (= Microhyla achatina Tschudi, 1838), by monotypy.

Micrhyla — Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 28, 613. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Microhyla Tschudi, 1838.

Siphneus Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 19. Type species: Engystoma ornatum Duméril and Bibron, 1841, by original designation. Preoccupied by Siphneus Brants, 1827. Synonymy by Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 87.

Dendromanes Gistel, 1848, Naturgesch. Thierr.: xi. Substitute name for Microhyla Tschudi, 1838.

Diplopelma Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 50. Replacement name for Siphneus Fitzinger, 1843. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 164. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 164.

Scaptophryne Fitzinger, 1861 "1860", Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Phys. Math. Naturwiss. Kl., 42: 416. Type species: Scaptophryne labyrinthica Fitzinger, 1861 "1860. Nomen nudum. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 164.

Copea Steindachner, 1864, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 14: 286. Type species: Copea fulva Steindachner, 1864, by monotypy. Synonymy by Parker, 1932, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 10, 10: 341.

Ranina David, 1872 "1871", Nouv. Arch. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, 7: 76. Type species: Ranina symetrica David, 1871, by monotypy. Junior homonym of Ranina Lamarck, 1801. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 164.

English Names

Rice Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 90).

Distribution

Ryukyu Is. (Japan) and China south through India to Sri Lanka and through Southeast Asia to Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and Bali.

Comment

Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 539-563, reviewed the species in Thailand. Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 145-155, reviewed the Bornean species. Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 508-529, reviewed the Indochinese species. Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 295-304, reviewed the Chinese species. See Dubois, 1987, Alytes, 6: 1-9, for the subgenera (Diplopelma and Microhyla) and species group taxonomy used herein. See identification table by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 46, to compare the species in the Sunda Shelf region. Malkmus, Manthey, Vogel, Hoffmann, and Kosuch, 2002, Amph. Rept. Mount Kinabalu: 131, provided a key to the species of Borneo. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 883-916, provided a key, accounts, and spot maps for China. Matsui, Hamidy, Belabut, Ahmad, Panha, Sudin, Khonsue, Oh, Yong, Jiang, and Nishikawa, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 167-176, suggested on the basis of mtDNA that Microhyla may be paraphyletic, with a clade composed of Calluella and Glyphoglossus imbedded within it. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, suggested their set of exemplar species to be monophyletic and the sister taxon of Glyphoglossus + Calluella.

Contained taxa

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