Nyctixalus Boulenger, 1882
Nyctixalus Boulenger, 1882, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 10: 35. Type species: Nyctixalus margaritifer Boulenger, 1882, by monotypy.
Hazelia Taylor, 1920, Philipp. J. Sci., 16: 292. Type species: Hazelia spinosa Taylor, 1920, by original designation. Preoccupied by Hazelia Walcott, 1920. Synonymy by Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 255.
Edwardtayloria Marx, 1975, Sci. Publ. Sci. Mus. Minnesota, N.S., 2: 1-3. Replacement name for Hazelia Taylor, 1920.
English Names
Indonesian Treefrogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 111).
Distribution
Philippines; Malaya; Sumatra; Java; Borneo; southern Vietnam.
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Philautus by Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 257, where it had been placed by Smith, 1931, Bull. Raffles Mus., 5: 19. See comment under Theloderma moloch. Wilkinson, Drewes, and Tatum, 2002, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 24: 265-273, Grosjean, Delorme, Dubois, and Ohler, 2008, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 46: 169-176, and Li, Che, Bain, Zhao, and Zhang, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 48: 302-312, and Yu, Rao, Zhang, and Yang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 50: 571-579, suggested on the basis of molecular evidence that Nyctixalus is the sister taxon of Theloderma. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, confirmed this placement in their study of Genbank sequences.
Contained taxa
- Nyctixalus margaritifer Boulenger, 1882
- Nyctixalus pictus (Peters, 1871)
- Nyctixalus spinosus (Taylor, 1920)
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