Grillitschia Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Megophryinae > Genus: Grillitschia
2 species

Grillitschia Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 133. Type species: Megophrys longipes Boulenger, 1885. 

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Peninsular Thailand and Tanintharyi Division, peninsular Myanmar, south to Malaya (West Malaysia), 300–1000 m elevation.

Comment

Grillitschia is the former Xenophrys aceras group of Mahony, Foley, Biju, and Teeling, 2017, Mol. Biol. Evol., 34: 744–771, according to Lyu, Qi, Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Zeng, Wan, Yang, Mo, and Wang, 2023, Zool. Res., Kunming, 44: 395. 

Contained taxa (2 sp.):

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