Phyzelaphryninae Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Eleutherodactylidae > Subfamily: Phyzelaphryninae
14 species

Phyzelaphryninae Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 93. Type genus: Phyzelaphryne Heyer, 1977.

Phyzelaphryini— Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 149. Subtribe. 

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Eastern and northeastern Brazil and in the Guiana Shield region in northeastern South America, and in the upper Amazon Basin.

Comment

See comments under Eleutherodactylidae and Eleutherodactylinae. Fouquet, Loebmann, Castroviejo-Fisher, Padial, Orrico, Lyra, Roberto, Kok, Haddad, and Rodrigues, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 65: 547-561, provided a phylogenetic analysis of this clade.

Contained taxa (14 sp.):

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