Phrynomerinae Noble, 1931
Brachymeridae Günther, 1858, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1858: 347. Type genus: Brachymerus Smith, 1847.
Phrynomerinae Noble, 1931, Biol. Amph.: 538. Type genus: Phrynomerus Noble, 1926.
Phrynomeridae — Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 9. Bossuyt and Roelants, 2009, in Hedges and Kumar (eds.), Timetree of Life: 358.
Phrynomantini Burton, 1986, Rec. S. Aust. Mus., 19: 444. Type genus: Phrynomantis Peters, 1867. See comment under Callulops (Asterophryinae).
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Subsaharan Africa.
Comment
See Dubois, 1988, Alytes, 7: 1-5, for a discussion of the taxonomic literature and nomenclature. 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, provided a hypothesis of placement of Phrynomantis within Microhylidae and did not recognize Phrynomerinae because of the lack of any necessity to do so. 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 suggested that Phrynomerinae is the sister taxon of remaining microhylids.
Contained taxa
- Phrynomantis Peters, 1867 (5 sp.)
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