Batrachylodes Boulenger, 1887
Batrachylodes Boulenger, 1887, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887: 337. Type species: Batrachylodes vertebralis Boulenger, 1887, by monotypy.
Batrachhylodes — Palacky, 1898, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 48: 374-382. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
English Names
Sticky-toed Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 98).
Distribution
Solomon Islands.
Comment
Placed in Ceratobatrachidae by 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: 136, on the basis of DNA sequence evidence. Brown and Parker, 1970, Breviora, 346: 1-31, reviewed this genus and named new species. Norris in Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 75, suggested that the genus is monophyletic. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 76, provided a key to the species in the genus. Pikacha, Morrison, and Richards, 2008, Frogs Solomon Islands: 27-34, provided a key and accounts for the species of the Solomon Islands. See comment under Platymantis.
Contained taxa
- Batrachylodes elegans Brown and Parker, 1970
- Batrachylodes gigas Brown and Parker, 1970
- Batrachylodes mediodiscus Brown and Parker, 1970
- Batrachylodes minutus Brown and Parker, 1970
- Batrachylodes montanus Brown and Parker, 1970
- Batrachylodes trossulus Brown and Myers, 1949
- Batrachylodes vertebralis Boulenger, 1887
- Batrachylodes wolfi (Sternfeld, 1920)
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