Otophryne Boulenger, 1900

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Otophryninae > Genus: Otophryne
3 species

Otophryne Boulenger, 1900, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Ser. 2, 8: 55. Type species: Otophryne robusta Boulenger, 1900, by original designation.

English Names

Pancake Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 91).

Distribution

Eastern Colombia and Guianan Venezuela to French Guiana and adjacent Brazil.

Comment

Reviewed by Campbell and Clarke, 1998, Herpetologica, 54: 301-317. MacCulloch, Lathrop, Minter, and Khan, 2008, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 48: 247-261, reviewed the species. Fouquet, Leblanc, Framit, Réjaud, Rodrigues, Castroviejo-Fisher, Peloso, Prates, Manzi, Suescun, Baroni, Moraes, Recoder, Marques-Souza, Vechio, Camacho, Ghellere, Rojas-Runjaic, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Carvalho, Gordo, Menin, Kok, Hrbek, Werneck, Crawford, Ron, Mueses-Cisneros, Rojas-Zamora, Pavan, Simões, Ernst, and Fabre, 2021, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 132: 233–256, discussed the molecular biogeography and suggested on the basis of genetic, morphometric, and call data that likely 5 unnamed lineage-species could be delimited from their data. 

Contained taxa (3 sp.):

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