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Hylophorbus Macleay, 1878
Hylophorbus Macleay, 1878, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 2: 136. Type species: Hylophorbus rufescens Macleay, 1878, by monotypy.
Metopostira Méhely, 1901, Termés. Füzetek, 24: 189, 238. Type species: Metopostira ocellata Méhely, 1901, by monotypy. Synonymy by Van Kampen, 1919, Bijdr. Dierkd., 21: 53; Zweifel, 1972, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 148: 449.
English Names
Mawatta Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 90).
Distribution
New Guinea.
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Asterophrys by Zweifel, 1972, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 148: 449, where it had been placed by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 58. Günther, 2001, Russ. J. Herpetol., 8: 81-104, provided cogent accounts and comparisons. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 247-252, discussed systematic issues within Hylophorbus and provided brief accounts. Köhler and Günther, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 47: 353-365, suggested on the basis of molecular evidence that Hylophorbus is monophyletic and the sister taxon of a group of "Callulops" including Callulops major. Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 418, recovered Hylophobus as monophyletic and imbedded in a paraphyletic Mantophryne. But, due to the generally chaotic nature of asterophryine generic taxonomy, these authors placed all asterophryine genera for which they had samples into Asterophrys, with the exception of Gastrophrynoides.
Contained taxa (12 sp.):
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