Didynamipus Andersson, 1903
Didynamipus Andersson, 1903, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 53: 143. Type species: Didynamipus sjöstedti Andersson, 1903, by monotypy.
Atelophryne Boulenger, 1906 "1905", Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 3, 2: 159. Type species: Atelophryne minuta Boulenger, 1906, by monotypy. Synonymy by Mertens, 1965, Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 16: 19 (not Noble, 1924, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 49: 147-347, as reported by Grandison, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 188).
English Names
Four-digit Toads (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 44).
Distribution
Bioko (Equatorial Guinea) and extreme southwestern Cameroon.
Comment
The phylogenetic relationships of this genus were discussed by Grandison, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 187-215. 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 on the basis of DNA sequence evidence that Didynamipus is most closely related to Nectophrynoides among the exemplars studied by those authors. Smith and Chiszar, 2006, Herpetol. Conserv. Biol., 1: 6-8, implied that this taxon should be considered a subgenus of Bufo; see comment under Bufonidae. Van Bocxlaer, Biju, Loader, and Bossuyt, 2009, BMC Evol. Biol., 9 (e131): 1-10, did not address this genus. Van Bocxlaer, Loader, Roelants, Biju, Menegon, and Bossuyt, 2010, Science, 327: 679-682, suggested that Didynamipus phylogenetically isolated, in the neighborhood of Schismaderma, Churamiti, Nectophrynoides, but not demonstratably close to them. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, suggested a puzzling placement as the sister taxon of Ghatixalus.
Contained taxa
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