Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Pyxicephalina Bonaparte, 1850, Conspect. Syst. Herpetol. Amph.: 1 p. Type genus: Pyxicephalus Tschudi, 1838.

Phrynopsinae Noble, 1931, Biol. Amph.: 518. Type genus: Phrynopsis Pfeffer, 1893 (= Pyxicephalus). Synonymy by Loveridge, 1936, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 79: 369-430; Laurent, 1946, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 39: 337.

Pyxicephalini — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 66.

Pyxicephalinae — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 317. Dubois, 2005, Alytes, 23: 17; 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: 240.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Subsaharan Africa.

Comment

Contained taxa

• Aubria Boulenger, 1917 (2 sp.)
• Pyxicephalus Tschudi, 1838 (4 sp.)

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