Austrochaperina

Austrochaperina
The rain frog
Austrochaperina pluvialis
Scientific classification Edit this 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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Austrochaperina is a genus of microhylid frogs found on New Guinea, New Britain and Australia.

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.

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.

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Austrochaperina:

The AmphibiaWeb includes a few additional species that Peloso and colleagues moved to Copiula in 2016.

References

  1. 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.
  2. ↑ 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. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)253<0001:POTAMF>2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/1600. S2CID 85621508.
  3. ↑ "Microhylidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
  4. ↑ 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. PMID 34732021. S2CID 84925667.