Vietnamophryne Poyarkov, Suwannapoom, Pawangkhanant, Aksornneam, Duong, Korost, and Che, 2018

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Asterophryinae > Genus: Vietnamophryne
6 species

Vietnamophryne Poyarkov, Suwannapoom, Pawangkhanant, Aksornneam, Duong, Korost, and Che, 2018, Zool. Res., Kunming, 38(3): 7. Type species: Vietnamophryne inexpectata Poyarkov, Suwannapoom, Pawangkhanant, Aksornneam, Duong, Korost, and Che, 2018, by original designation. 

Common Names

Indochinese Dwarf Frogs (original publication). 

Distribution

Known from two localities in Vietnam (Gia Lai Province, Tay Nguyen Plateau of the central Annamite (Truong Son) Mountains and mountainous area in Cao Bang Province), and one locality in northern Thailand (limestone mountainous area in northern Chiang Rai Province); currently unnamed species in northern Laos.

Comment

The sister taxon of Siamophryne according to the original publication. Nguyen, Hoang, Jiang, Orlov, Ninh, Nguyen, Nguyen, and Ziegler, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28: 355–368, provided a morphological comparison of the species within VietnamophryneStuart, Seateun, Sivongxay, and Phimmachak, 2025 "2024", in Wildlife Lao PDR: 37, noted a likely unnamed species from Hiem District, Houaphan Province, 2,018–2,039 m elevation, Laos. 

Contained taxa (6 sp.):

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