Glyphoglossus Gunther, 1869 "1868"

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae > Genus: Glyphoglossus
10 species

Glyphoglossus Günther, 1869 "1868", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868: 483. Type species: Glyphoglossus molossus Günther, 1869 "1868", by monotypy.

Calluella Stoliczka, 1872, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1872: 146. Type species: Megalophrys guttulata Blyth, 1856 "1855", by original designation. Synonymy by Peloso, Frost, Richards, Rodrigues, Donnellan, Matsui, Raxworthy, Biju, Lemmon, Lemmon, and Wheeler, 2016, Cladistics, 32: xxx. 

Colpoglossus Boulenger, 1904, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 13: 42. Type species: Colpoglossus brooksi Boulenger, 1904, by monotypy. Synonymy by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 31; Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 118.

Dyscophina Van Kampen, 1905, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 22: 708. Type species: Dyscophina volzi Van Kampen, 1905, by monotypy. Synonymy by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 27.

Calliglutus Barbour and Noble, 1916, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 6: 20. Type species: Calliglutus smithi Barbour and Noble, 1916, by monotypy. Synonymy with Colpoglossus by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 30.

Kalluella — Gee and Boring, 1929, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 4: 25. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

English Names

Balloon Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 89).

Squat Frogs (Calluella [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 88).

Distribution

Southeastern Asia.

Comment

See identification table (as Calluella) by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 46, to compare the species of the Sunda Shelf region. Calluella was xcluded from Dyscophinae and placed in Calluellinae by by Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 278. 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: 230, placed Calluella in Microhylinae on the basis of phylogenetic position. See Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 575–578 (for Glyphoglossus molossus). 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: 225, removed Glyphoglossus (in the sense of not including Calluella) from any subfamily pending resolution of its phylogenetic placement. Transferred to Microhylinae by Van Bocxlaer, Roelants, Biju, Nagaraju, and Bossuyt, 2006, PLoS One, 1: 1–6. Matsui, Hamidy, Belabut, Ahmad, Panha, Sudin, Khonsue, Oh, Yong, Jiang, and Nishikawa, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 167–176, suggested the possibility that this taxon may be imbedded within Calluella on the basis of mtDNA phylogenetic analysis. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543–583, in their molecular study, suggested Glyphoglossus to be the sister taxon of CalluellaDas, Min, Hsu, Hertwig, and Haas, 2014, Zootaxa, 3785: 559–560, confirmed the placement of Glyphoglossus within Calluella.  Gorin, Solovyeva, Hasan, Okamiya, Karunarathna, Pawangkhanant, de Silva, Juthong, Milto, Nguyen, Suwannapoom, Haas, Bickford, Das, and Poyarkov, 2020, PeerJ, 8 (e9411): 1–47, placed this taxon as the sister of Microhyla.

Contained taxa (10 sp.):

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