Lankanectinae Dubois and Ohler, 2001

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Nyctibatrachidae > Subfamily: Lankanectinae
2 species

Lankanectinae Dubois and Ohler, 2001, Alytes, 19: 82. Type genus: Lankanectes Dubois and Ohler, 2001. 

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Submontane western, central, and southern Sri Lanka.

Comment

Not recognized as a taxon by 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: 247, but subsequenbtly recognized by Vijayakumar, Pyron, Dinesh, Torsekar, Srikanthan, Swamy, Stanley, Blackburn, and Shanker, 2019, PeerJ, 7(e6457): 1. 

Contained taxa (2 sp.):

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