Plethodontohyla

Plethodontohyla is a genus of microhylid frogs endemic to Madagascar.^[1]

Plethodontohyla
Plethodontohyla notosticta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Microhylidae
Subfamily:	Cophylinae
Genus:	Plethodontohyla Boulenger, 1882
Type species
Callula notosticta Günther, 1877
Diversity
11 species
Synonyms
Callula Günther, 1877 (partial) Mantipus Peters, 1883 (partial) Phrynocara Peters, 1883 Mantiphrys Mocquard, 1895

Species

There are at present 11 species:^[1][2][3]

• Plethodontohyla alluaudi (Mocquard, 1901)
• Plethodontohyla bipunctata (Guibé, 1974)
• Plethodontohyla brevipes Boulenger, 1882
• Plethodontohyla fonetana Glaw, Köhler, Bora, Rabibisoa, Ramilijaona, and Vences, 2007
• Plethodontohyla guentheri Glaw and Vences, 2007
• Plethodontohyla inguinalis Boulenger, 1882
• Plethodontohyla laevis (Boettger, 1913)
• Plethodontohyla mihanika Vences, Raxworthy, Nussbaum, and Glaw, 2003
• Plethodontohyla notosticta (Günther, 1877)
• Plethodontohyla ocellata Noble and Parker, 1926
• Plethodontohyla tuberata (Peters, 1883)

Taxonomy

The following species were formerly classed as Plethodontoyhla species but have since been moved to the genus Rhombophryne:

• Rhombophryne coronata (Vences & Glaw, 2003)
• Rhombophryne guentherpetersi (Guibé, 1974)
• Rhombophryne laevipes (Mocquard, 1895)
• Rhombophryne minuta (Guibé, 1975)
• Rhombophryne serratopalpebrosa (Guibé, 1975)

The taxon Plethodontohyla alluaudi was moved to Rhombophryne by Frost et al. in 2006,^[4] but was transferred back to Plethodontohyla after review of its taxonomic status in early 2018,^[3] along with the newly resurrected Plethodontohyla laevis. In addition, the species Rhombophryne matavy was erroneously transferred to Plethodontohyla in 2016^[5] based on a misidentified DNA sequence, and was later transferred back to Rhombophryne.^[6]

References

1. Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Plethodontohyla Boulenger, 1882". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
2. "Microhylidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
3. Bellati, Adriana; Scherz, Mark D.; Megson, Steven; Roberts, Sam Hyde; Andreone, Franco; Rosa, Gonçalo M.; Noël, Jean; Randrianirina, Jasmin E.; Fasola, Mauro (2018-02-02). "Resurrection and re-description of Plethodontohyla laevis (Boettger, 1913) and transfer of Rhombophryne alluaudi (Mocquard, 1901) to the genus Plethodontohyla (Amphibia, Microhylidae, Cophylinae)". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 94 (1): 109–135. doi:10.3897/zse.94.14698. ISSN 1860-0743.
4. Frost, Darrel R.; Grant, Taran; Faivovich, Julián; Bain, Raoul H.; Haas, Alexander; Haddad, Célio F.b.; De Sá, Rafael O.; Channing, Alan; Wilkinson, Mark (2006-03-01). "The amphibian tree of life". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 297: 1–291. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:tatol]2.0.co;2. ISSN 0003-0090. S2CID 86140137.
5. Peloso, P. L. V.; Frost, D. R.; Richards, S. J.; Rodrigues, M. T.; Donnellan, S.; Matsui, M.; Raxworhty, C. J.; Biju, S. D.; Lemmon, E. M.; Lemmon, A. R.; Wheeler, W. C. (2016). "The impact of anchored phylogenomics and taxon sampling on phylogenetic inference in narrow-mouthed frogs (Anura, Microhylidae)". Cladistics. 32 (2): 113–140. doi:10.1111/cla.12118. PMID 34732021. S2CID 84925667.
6. Scherz, Mark D.; Vences, Miguel; Rakotoarison, Andolalao; Andreone, Franco; Köhler, Jörn; Glaw, Frank; Crottini, Angelica (2016). "Reconciling molecular phylogeny, morphological divergence and classification of Madagascan narrow-mouthed frogs (Amphibia: Microhylidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 100: 372–381. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.04.019. PMID 27085671.