Ophryophryne Boulenger, 1903

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Megophryinae > Genus: Ophryophryne
7 species

Ophryophryne Boulenger, 1903, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 12: 186. Type species: Ophryophryne microstoma Boulenger, 1903, by monotypy.

Ophryophryne — Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 473; Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 66; Mahony, Foley, Biju, and Teeling, 2017, Mol. Biol. Evol., 34: 755. Treatment as a subgenus of Megophrys. 

Ophryophryne — Chen, Zhou, Poyarkov, Stuart, Brown, Lathrop, Wang, Yuan, Jiang, Hou, Chen, Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Duong, Papenfuss, Murphy, Zhang, and Che, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 106: 41; Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927: 40. Treatment as a genus. 

Common Names

Mountains Toads (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 86).

Narrow-mouth Horned Toads (Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 729). 

Distribution

Northern Thailand, northern and eastern Laos, northern Vietnam and southern China.

Comment

See comment under Megophrys. Considered by Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 473, to be ranked at the level of subgenus (of Megophrys), but ranked as a genus subsequently by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 23. The phylogenetic position of this taxon was discussed by Rao and Yang, 1997, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 7: 92–102. Ohler, 2003, Alytes, 21: 23–44, revised the genus and provided a key to the species. Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 87, provided a key to the Chinese species. Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 17, provided evidence that Ophryophryne is a monophyletic derivative of a paraphyletic Xenophrys. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 472–481, provided a key and accounts for the Chinese species. See comment under Megophryidae. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543–583, suggested that of their examplar species Ophryophryne is the sister taxon of a monophyletic group composed of "Xenophrys", Megophrys, and Brachytarsophrys. Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Sung, Yang, Pang, and Zhang, 2012, Zootaxa, 3546: 53–67, provided molecular evidence of the paraphyly of Xenophrys with respect to Ophryophryne, but did not make the nomenclatural remedy. Chen, Zhou, Poyarkov, Stuart, Brown, Lathrop, Wang, Yuan, Jiang, Hou, Chen, Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Duong, Papenfuss, Murphy, Zhang, and Che, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 106: 28–43, provided a phylogenetic justification for a monophyletic Ophryophryne and redelimited other genera as monophyletic as well. 

Contained taxa (7 sp.):

Ophryophryne elfina Poyarkov, Duong, Orlov, Gogoleva, Vassilieva, Nguyen, Nguyen, Nguyen, Che, and Mahony, 2017
Ophryophryne gerti Ohler, 2003
Ophryophryne hansi Ohler, 2003
Ophryophryne microstoma Boulenger, 1903
Ophryophryne pachyproctus Kou, 1985
Ophryophryne poilani Bourret, 1937
Ophryophryne synoria Stuart, Sok, and Neang, 2006

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