Austrochaperina
| Austrochaperina | |
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| The rain frog Austrochaperina pluvialis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Microhylidae |
| Subfamily: | Asterophryinae |
| Genus: | Austrochaperina Fry, 1912 |
| Type species | |
| Austrochaperina robusta Fry, 1912 | |
| Species | |
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24 species (see text) | |
Austrochaperina is a genus of microhylid frogs found on New Guinea, New Britain and Australia.[1]
Taxonomy
The genus was removed from the synonymy of Sphenophryne by Richard Zweifel in 2000. However, as currently defined, it might not be monophyletic, with two monophyletic units of Austrochaperina more closely related to parts of Copiula than with each other.[1]
Description
Austrochaperina are rather generalized frogs in their morphology and appear mostly to inhabit leaf litter. They reach maximum sizes between 20 and 50 mm (0.79 and 1.97 in) snout–vent length. Finger and toe tips are flattened and disc-like. Most species lack toe webbing. [2]
Species
There are at present 24 species in this genus:[1]
- Austrochaperina adamantina Zweifel, 2000
- Austrochaperina adelphe (Zweifel, 1985) — Peeping land frog
- Austrochaperina alexanderi Günther, Richards, and Dahl, 2014
- Austrochaperina aquilonia Zweifel, 2000
- Austrochaperina archboldi Zweifel, 2000
- Austrochaperina basipalmata (Van Kampen, 1906)
- Austrochaperina blumi Zweifel, 2000
- Austrochaperina brevipes (Boulenger, 1897) — Victoria land frog
- Austrochaperina fryi (Zweifel, 1962) — Whistling land frog
- Austrochaperina gracilipes Fry, 1912 — Golden land frog
- Austrochaperina hooglandi (Zweifel, 1967) — New Guinea land frog
- Austrochaperina kosarek Zweifel, 2000
- Austrochaperina laurae Günther, Richards, and Dahl, 2014
- Austrochaperina macrorhyncha (Van Kampen, 1906) — Manikion land frog
- Austrochaperina mehelyi (Parker, 1934) — Mehely's land frog
- Austrochaperina minutissima Günther, 2009
- Austrochaperina novaebritanniae Zweifel, 2000
- Austrochaperina palmipes (Zweifel, 1956) — Dayman land frog
- Austrochaperina parkeri Zweifel, 2000
- Austrochaperina pluvialis (Zweifel, 1965) — Flecked land frog
- Austrochaperina polysticta (Méhely, 1901) — Morobe land frog
- Austrochaperina robusta Fry, 1912 — Chirping land frog
- Austrochaperina septentrionalis Allison and Kraus, 2003
- Austrochaperina yelaensis Zweifel, 2000
The AmphibiaWeb[3] includes a few additional species that Peloso and colleagues moved to Copiula in 2016.[4]
References
- 1 2 3 Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Austrochaperina Fry, 1912". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
- ↑ Zweifel, R. G. (2000). "Partition of the Australopapuan microhylid frog genus Sphenophryne with descriptions of new species". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 253: 1–130.
- ↑ "Microhylidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
- ↑ Peloso, Pedro L.V.; Frost, Darrel R.; Richards, Stephen J.; Rodrigues, Miguel T.; Donnellan, Stephen; Matsui, Masafumi; Raxworthy, Cristopher J.; Biju, S.D.; Lemmon, Emily Moriarty; Lemmon, Alan R.; Wheeler, Ward 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.