Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia s. Ecaudata in the collection of the British museum.

Boulenger, George Albert

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“…The name Hylarana has had an historically unstable application, alternatively being considered synonymous with Rana, or treated as a distinct subgenus or genus with an ill-defined content, and diagnosed in several different, even contradictory ways (e.g., Tschudi, 1838;Günther, 1859Günther, ''1858Boulenger, 1882Boulenger, , 1920Perret, 1977;Poynton and Broadley, 1985;Fei et al, 1991Fei et al, ''1990, although it is almost always associated with frogs that exhibit expanded toe tips. The original diagnostic character of the genus Hylarana Tschudi, 1838 (type species: Rana erythraea Schlegel, 1827) is the presence of a dilated disc on the tips of the toes (a character that can now be seen to encompass many of the species of Ranidae and its immediate outgroups).…”

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“…Because of the ambiguity of the diagnostic character of dilated toe disc, Boulenger (1882Boulenger ( , 1920 believed Hylarana to be a ''group of polyphyletic origin'', but suggested that it was a subgenus of Rana, removing vocal sac condition as a diagnostic character and expanding its definition: dilated digital discs with circummarginal grooves, T-shaped terminal phalanges, and an unforked omosternal style (Boulenger, 1920: 123;as Hylorana). All of his putatively diagnostic characters have greater levels of generality than ''Hylarana''.…”

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Supplemental Material for 'The amphibian tree of life. (Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 297)'

Frost¹,

Grant²,

Faivovich³

et al. 2006

American Museum of Natural History Research Library

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Section: No 297 Bulletin American Museum Of Natural Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: No 297 Bulletin American Museum Of Natural Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

Supplemental Material for 'The amphibian tree of life. (Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 297)'

Frost¹,

Grant²,

Faivovich³

et al. 2006

American Museum of Natural History Research Library

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“…brevipes Boulenger, 1882. This circumscription was before its time in recognizing the phenotypic diversity of Plethodontohyla, as Boulenger (1882) established the genus containing terrestrial/fossorial (P. brevipes) and arboreal and semi-terrestrial (P. notosticta, P. inguinalis) species. Peters (1883) later erected two genera, Phrynocara Peters, 1883 (type species Ph.…”

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“…The microhylid subfamily Cophylinae Cope, 1889, endemic to Madagascar, is today recognised as possessing eight genera according to Scherz et al (2016a): Plethodontohyla Boulenger, 1882, Rhombophryne Boettger, 1880, Stumpffia Boettger, 1881, Madecassophryne Guibé, 1974, Platypelis Boulenger, 1882, Anodonthyla Müller, 1892, Cophyla Boettger, 1880 and Anilany Scherz, Vences, Rakotoarison, Andreone, Köhler, Glaw & Crottini, 2016. Recent studies (Vieites et al 2009, Perl et al 2014 have provided DNA barcoding reference sequences for almost all described and undescribed frog species of Madagascar and have highlighted the presence of a large taxonomic gap in the Cophylinae, which currently comprises over 100 described species (Scherz et al 2016a, AmphibiaWeb 2018, but which has an estimated further > 40 species yet to be formally described.…”

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Resurrection and re-description of Plethodontohyla laevis (Boettger, 1913) and transfer of Rhombophryne alluaudi (Mocquard, 1901) to the genus Plethodontohyla (Amphibia, Microhylidae, Cophylinae)

Bellati¹,

Scherz²,

Megson³

et al. 2018

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Resurrection and re-description of Plethodontohyla laevis (Boettger, 1913) and transfer of Rhombophryne alluaudi (Mocquard, 1901) AbstractThe systematics of the cophyline microhylid frog genera Plethodontohyla and Rhombophryne have long been intertwined, and their relationships have only recently started to become clear. While Rhombophryne has received a lot of recent taxonomic attention, Plethodontohyla has been largely neglected. Our study is a showcase of just how complex the taxonomic situation between these two genera is, and the care that must be taken to resolve taxonomic conundrums where old material, multiple genus transitions, and misattribution of new material obfuscate the picture. We assessed the identity of the historic names Dyscophus alluaudi (currently in the genus Rhombophryne), Phrynocara laeve and Plethodontohyla laevis tsianovohensis (both synonyms of Rhombophryne alluaudi) based on an integrative taxonomic approach harnessing genetics, external morphology, osteological data obtained via micro-Computed Tomography (micro-CT) and bioacoustics. We show that (1) the holotype of Dyscophus alluaudi is a member of the genus Plethodontohyla; (2) the Rhombophryne specimens from central Madagascar currently assigned to Rhombophryne alluaudi have no affinity with that species, and are instead an undescribed species; and (3) Phrynocara laeve and Dyscophus alluaudi are not synonymous, but represent closely related species, whereas Plethodontohyla laevis tsianovohensis is tentatively confirmed as synonym of D. alluaudi. We resurrect and re-describe Plethodontohyla laevis, and re-allocate and re-describe Plethodontohyla alluaudi on the basis of new and historic material.

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The vocal sac of Hylodidae (Amphibia, Anura): Phylogenetic and functional implications of a unique morphology

Elias-Costa

Montesinos

Grant

et al. 2017

Journal of Morphology

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Anuran vocal sacs are elastic chambers that recycle exhaled air during vocalizations and are present in males of most species of frogs. Most knowledge of the diversity of vocal sacs relates to external morphology; detailed information on internal anatomy is available for few groups of frogs. Frogs of the family Hylodidae, which is endemic to the Atlantic Forest of Brazil and adjacent Argentina and Paraguay, have three patterns of vocal sac morphology-that is, single, subgular; paired, lateral; and absent. The submandibular musculature and structure of the vocal sac mucosa (the internal wall of the vocal sac) of exemplar species of this family and relatives were studied. In contrast to previous accounts, we found that all species of Crossodactylus and Hylodes possess paired, lateral vocal sacs, with the internal mucosa of each sac being separate from the contralateral one. Unlike all other frogs for which data are available, the mucosa of the vocal sacs in these genera is not supported externally by the mm. intermandibularis and interhyoideus. Rather, the vocal sac mucosa projects through the musculature and is free in the submandibular lymphatic sac. The presence of paired, lateral vocal sacs, the internal separation of the sac mucosae, and their projection through the m. interhyoideus are synapomorphies of the family. Furthermore, the specific configuration of the m. interhyoideus allows asymmetric inflation of paired vocal sacs, a feature only reported in species of these diurnal, stream-dwelling frogs.

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Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia s. Ecaudata in the collection of the British museum.

Cited by 80 publications

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Supplemental Material for 'The amphibian tree of life. (Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 297)'

Supplemental Material for 'The amphibian tree of life. (Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 297)'

Resurrection and re-description of Plethodontohyla laevis (Boettger, 1913) and transfer of Rhombophryne alluaudi (Mocquard, 1901) to the genus Plethodontohyla (Amphibia, Microhylidae, Cophylinae)

The vocal sac of Hylodidae (Amphibia, Anura): Phylogenetic and functional implications of a unique morphology

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