Poyntonia Channing and Boycott, 1989
Poyntonia Channing and Boycott, 1989, Copeia, 1989: 467. Type species: Poyntonia paludicola Channing and Boycott, 1989, by original designation.
English Names
Reserve Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 104).
Marsh Frogs (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 313; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 391).
Distribution
As for the single species.
Comment
Wiens, Sukumaran, Pyron, and Brown, 2009, Evolution, 63: 1217-1231, suggested this taxon to be the sister of Cacosternum. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed this except to note that Microbatrachella is imbedded within Cacosternum.
Contained taxa
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