Atopophrynus Lynch and Ruiz-Carranza, 1982
Atopophrynus Lynch and Ruiz-Carranza, 1982, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 95: 557. Type species: Atopophrynus syntomopus Lynch and Ruiz-Carranza, 1982, by original designation.
English Names
Sonson Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 70).
Distribution
As for the single species.
Comment
Considered a member of Dendrobatidae in the original publication. Placed in Leptodactylidae (sensu lato), possibly close to Geobatrachus, by Myers and Ford, 1986, Am. Mus. Novit., 2843: 1-15, although they also noted that it might fit into Bufonidae. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10092-10097, did not address this taxon in their analysis so its phylogenetic placement is unknown. Assignment to their Strabomantidae or Strabomantinae by Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 1-182, was provisional. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, also did not include this taxon in their analysis and placed it provisionally as incertae sedis within Craugastoridae.
Contained taxa
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