Noblella Barbour, 1930

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Craugastoridae > Subfamily: Holoadeninae > Genus: Noblella

Noblella Barbour, 1930, Zoologica, New York, 11: 81. Type species: Sminthillus peruvianus Noble, 1921, by original designation.

Phyllonastes Heyer, 1977, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 31: 151. Type species: Euparkerella myrmecoides Lynch, 1976, by original designation. Synonymy by De la Riva, Chaparro, and Padial, 2008, Zootaxa, 1685: 55-66.

English Names

Heyer's Leaf Frogs (Phyllonastes [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 83).

Distribution

Amazonian basin of southeastern Colombia, eastern Peru. northeastern Bolivia and adjacent Brazil; eastern slopes of the Andes of southern Ecuador through Peru to Bolivia.

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Phrynopus by De la Riva, Chaparro, and Padial, 2008, Zootaxa, 1685: 55-66, where it had been placed by Lynch, 1975, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 35: 8. See comment under Adelophryne. Duellman, 1991, Herpetologica, 47: 9-13, provided a key to the species of Phyllonastes. Lynch, 1986, J. Herpetol., 20: 423-431, suggested that Phyllonastes might be related to the Phrynopus peruvianus group. De la Riva and Köhler, 1998, J. Herpetol., 32: 328-329, suggested that the Phrynopus peruvianus group is likely paraphyletic with respect to Phyllonastes. Lehr, Fritzsch, and Müller, 2005, Zool. Scripta, 34: 593-603, confirmed the paraphyly of Phrynopus with respect to Phyllonastes, but did not act on this taxonomic problem. See comments under Phrynopus, Phrynopus bagrecito, and Phrynopus peruvianus. Cisneros-Heredia and Reynolds, 2007, Herpetozoa, 19: 184-186, mentioned at three unnamed species of Phyllonastes in Ecuador and two in Peru. See discussion by Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 102, who noted that the monophyly and relationships of this taxon remain unelucidated. Guayasamin and Terán-Valdez, 2009, Zootaxa, 2161: 47-59, provided a key to the species in the genus and discussed the ranges of the species. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 91-96, for brief accounts of the species in Peru. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, suggested that Noblella is polyphyletic, with one of their exemplars, Noblella peruviana being the sister taxon of Psychrophrynella and another, Noblella lochites, being the sister taxon of Barycholos.

Contained taxa

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