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Pyxicephalinae Bonaparte, 1850
Pyxicephalina Bonaparte, 1850, Conspect. Syst. Herpetol. Amph.: 1 p. Type genus: Pyxicephalus Tschudi, 1838.
Phrynopsinae Noble, 1931, Biol. Amph.: 518. Type genus: Phrynopsis Pfeffer, 1893 (= Pyxicephalus). Synonymy by Loveridge, 1936, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 79: 369-430; Laurent, 1946, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 39: 337.
Pyxicephalini — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 66.
Pyxicephalinae — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 317. Dubois, 2005, Alytes, 23: 17; 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: 240.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Subsaharan Africa.
Contained taxa (6 sp.):
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