Phrynomedusa Miranda-Ribeiro, 1923

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Phyllomedusinae > Genus: Phrynomedusa
6 species

Phrynomedusa Miranda-Ribeiro, 1923, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 1: 4. Type species: Phrynomedusa fimbriata Miranda-Ribeiro, 1923, by subsequent designation of Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 27: 105.

English Names

Colored Leaf Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61).

Distribution

Southeastern Brazil.

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Phyllomedusa by Cruz, 1991 "1990", Rev. Brasil. Biol., 50: 709-726. Formerly considered to constitute the Phyllomedusa fimbriata group. Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 235, on the basis of an extensive molecular analysis suggested Phrynomedusa to be the sister taxon of all other phyllomedusines. Baêta, Giasson, Pombal, and Haddad, 2016, Herpetol. Monogr., 30: 49–78, reviewed the genus. 

Contained taxa (6 sp.):

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