Discoglossus Otth, 1837
Discoglossus Otth, 1837, Neue Denkschr. Allg. Schweiz. Ges. Naturwiss., 1: 6. Type species: Discoglossus pictus Otth, 1837, by monotypy.
Colodactylus Tschudi, 1845, Arch. Naturgesch., 11: 167. Type species: Colodactylus coerulescens Tschudi, 1845, by monotypy. Synonymy by Peters, 1873, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1873: 623; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 445.
English Names
Painted Frogs (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 51; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 51).
Distribution
Southern Europe, northwestern Africa, Israel, and Syria (?).
Comment
See Lanza, Cei, and Crespo, 1975, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 9: 153-162, for history of taxonomy and relationships of species. Lanza, Nascetti, Capula, and Bullini, 1984, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 18: 133-152; Capula, Nascetti, Lanza, Bullini, and Crespo, 1985, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 19: 69-90; and Martínez-Solano, 2004, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 42: 298-305, and Fromhage, Vences, and Veith, 2004, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 31: 308-322 discussed relationships of western Mediterranean species, as did Capula and Corti, 1993, J. Zool., London, 231: 141-156, and Capula and Corti, 1993, Suppl. Ricerche Biol. Selvaggina, 21: 597-604. Busack, 1986, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 55: 41-61, discussed Spanish and Moroccan species. Odierna, Aprea, Capriglione, Parisi, Arribas, and Morescalchi, 1999, Ital. J. Zool., 66: 273-283, discussed phylogenetics of Discoglossus on the basis of karyology. Barbadillo-Escrivá, 1987, Guia INCAFO Anf. Rept. Peninsula Iberica: 126-130, discussed the Iberian populations. Velo-Antón, Martínez-Solano, and García-París, 2008, Amphibia-Reptilia, 29: 523-533, discussed the taxonomic status of Iberian populations. Pabijan, Crottini, Reckwell, Irisarri, Hauswaldt, and Vences, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 64: 690-696, reported on molecular evolution and a tree of the species.
Contained taxa
- Discoglossus galganoi Capula, Nascetti, Lanza, Bullini, and Crespo, 1985
- Discoglossus jeanneae Busack, 1986
- Discoglossus montalentii Lanza, Nascetti, Capula, and Bullini, 1984
- Discoglossus nigriventer Mendelssohn and Steinitz, 1943
- Discoglossus pictus Otth, 1837
- Discoglossus sardus Tschudi, 1837
- Discoglossus scovazzi Camerano, 1878
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