Oreophrynella Boulenger, 1895
Oreophrynella Boulenger, 1895, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 16: 125. Replacement name for Oreophryne Boulenger, 1895.
Oreophryne Boulenger, 1895, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 15: 521. Type species: Oreophryne quelchii Boulenger, 1895, by monotypy. Junior homonym of Oreophryne Boettger, 1895.
English Names
Bush Toads (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 45).
Distribution
On sandstone mountains (tepuis) in south-central Venezuela and adjacent Guyana.
Comment
McDiarmid, 1971, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 12: 49, placed Oreophrynella as the sister-taxon of Atelopus + Dendrophryniscus + Melanophryniscus. Cannatella, 1986, Herpetologica, 42: 197-205, considered Oreophrynella to be the sister-taxon of Dendrophryniscus. Graybeal, 1997, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 119: 297-338, presented a tree that suggested that Oreophrynella is most closely related to Pelophryne and Didnamipus. Señaris, Ayarzagüena, and Gorzula, 1994, Publ. Asoc. Amigos Doñana, 3: 1-37 discussed the species in Venezuela, and suggested a special relationship with Metaphryniscus and Osornophryne. Graybeal and Cannatella, 1995, Herpetologica, 51: 122, presented evidence supporting the monophyly of Oreophrynella. Barrio-Amorós, 1999 "1998", Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 18: 11-12, reported on literature and distribution for the species in Venezuela. Van Bocxlaer, Loader, Roelants, Biju, Menegon, and Bossuyt, 2010, Science, 327: 679-682, suggested on the basis of molecular evidence that Oreophrynella is phylogenetically isolated, attaching near the base of the bufonid tree. Kok, MacCulloch, Means, Roelants, Van Bocxlaer, and Bossuyt, 2012, Curr. Biol., 22: R589-R590, and Kok, MacCulloch, Means, Roelants, Van Bocxlaer, and Bossuyt, 2012, Curr. Biol. (Suppl. Inform.), 22: 1-25, provided a molecular tree of tepui populations and noted the low branch lengths. Peloso, Faivovich, Grant, Gasparini, and Haddad, 2012, Am. Mus. Novit., 3762: 1-32, suggested on the basis of molecular evidence that Oreophrynella is the sister taxon of Frostius.
Contained taxa
- Oreophrynella cryptica Señaris, 1995
- Oreophrynella dendronastes Lathrop and MacCulloch, 2007
- Oreophrynella huberi Diego-Aransay and Gorzula, 1990
- Oreophrynella macconnelli Boulenger, 1900
- Oreophrynella nigra Señaris, Ayarzagüena, and Gorzula, 1994
- Oreophrynella quelchii Boulenger, 1895
- Oreophrynella seegobini Kok, 2009
- Oreophrynella vasquezi Señaris, Ayarzagüena, and Gorzula, 1994
- Oreophrynella weiassipuensis Señaris, DoNascimiento, and Villarreal, 2005
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