Dendrophryniscus Jiménez de la Espada, 1870
Dendrophryniscus Jiménez de la Espada, 1870, J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat., Lisboa, 3: 65. Type species: Dendrophryniscus brevipollicatus Jiménez de la Espada, 1870, by monotypy.
English Names
Tree Toads (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 44).
Distribution
Atlantic forests of Brazil;.
Comment
McDiarmid, 1971, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 12: 49, considered Dendrophryniscus to be most closely related to Melanophryniscus. Cannatella, 1986, Herpetologica, 42: 197-205, considered it to be the sister-taxon of Oreophrynella. 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: 129, suggested that Dendrophryniscus is placed in a pectinate tree above the level of the branches leading to Osornophryne, Atelopus, and Melanophryniscus (and likely, Truebella) and that any similarities to these genera is due to retention of plesiomorphic characteristics. Izecksohn, 1994 "1993", Rev. Brasil. Zool., 10: 473-488, provided a key to the species. Graybeal and Cannatella, 1995, Herpetologica, 51: 121, suggested evidence supporting the monophyly of this taxon. Van Bocxlaer, Biju, Loader, and Bossuyt, 2009, BMC Evol. Biol., 9 (e131): 1-10, suggested that Dendrophryniscus is the sister taxon of all bufonids, excluding Melanophryniscus (although the atelopodines and Truebella were not included in the analysis). Van Bocxlaer, Loader, Roelants, Biju, Menegon, and Bossuyt, 2010, Science, 327: 679-682, suggested that Dendrophryniscus is the sister taxon of all bufonids, excluding Melanophryniscus, Atelopus, Osornophryne, and Oreophrynella (but could not include Truebella in their analysis). Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed this arrangement (although not studying Oreophrynella). Fouquet, Recoder, Teixeira, Cassimiro, Amaro, Camacho, Damasceno, Carnaval, Moritz, and Rodrigues, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 62: 826-838, partitioned Dendrophryniscus into Dendrophyniscus and Amazonella.
Contained taxa
- Dendrophryniscus berthalutzae Izecksohn, 1994
- Dendrophryniscus brevipollicatus Jiménez de la Espada, 1870
- Dendrophryniscus carvalhoi Izecksohn, 1994
- Dendrophryniscus krausae Cruz and Fusinatto, 2008
- Dendrophryniscus leucomystax Izecksohn, 1968
- Dendrophryniscus oreites Recoder, Teixeira, Cassimiro, Camacho, and Rodrigues, 2010
- Dendrophryniscus organensis Carvalho-e-Silva, Mongin, Izecksohn, and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2010
- Dendrophryniscus skuki Caramaschi, 2012
- Dendrophryniscus stawiarskyi Izecksohn, 1994
- Dendrophyniscus proboscideus (Boulenger, 1882)
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