Buergeria Tschudi, 1838
Bürgeria Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 34, 75. Type species: Hyla Bürgeri Temminck and Schlegel, 1838, by subsequent designation of Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 143.
Dendricus Gistel, 1848, Naturgesch. Thierr.: viii. Substitute name for Buergeria Tschudi, 1838.
Buergeria — Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 143. Justified emendation.
English Names
Buerger's Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 111).
Distribution
Taiwan (China); Ryukyu Island to Honshu Island (Japan).
Comment
See Kuramoto, 1980, Bull. Fukuoka Univ. Educ., Nat. Sci., 30: 61-64, for discussion of relationships among species. Nishizawa, Kurabayashi, Kunihara, Sano, Fujii, and Sumida, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 139-147, reported on the mtDNA phylogenetics of the species as did Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their molecular tree based on Genbank sequences.
Contained taxa
- Buergeria buergeri (Temminck and Schlegel, 1838)
- Buergeria japonica (Hallowell, 1861)
- Buergeria oxycephala (Boulenger, 1900)
- Buergeria robusta (Boulenger, 1909)
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