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Platypelis Boulenger, 1882
Platypelis Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 474. Type species: Platypelis cowanii Boulenger, 1882, by monotypy.
Platypelis Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 474. Type species: Platypelis cowanii Boulenger, 1882, by monotypy. Synonymy by Peloso, Frost, Richards, Rodrigues, Donnellan, Matsui, Raxworthy, Biju, Lemmon, Lemmon, and Wheeler, 2016, Cladistics, 32: 138; Peloso, Raxworthy, Wheeler, and Frost, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 111: 56–64.
Platyhyla Boulenger, 1889, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 4: 247. Type species: Platyhyla grandis Boulenger, 1889, by monotypy. Synonymy by Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 115.
Paracophyla Millot and Guibé, 1951, Mem. Inst. Sci. Madagascar, Ser. A, 5: 209. Type species: Paracophyla tuberculata Millot and Guibé, 1951, by monotypy. Synonymy with Platypelis by Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 70.
Common Names
Giant Treefrogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 91).
Distribution
Madagascar.
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Cophyla by Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 417, where it had been placed by Peloso, Frost, Richards, Rodrigues, Donnellan, Matsui, Raxworthy, Biju, Lemmon, Lemmon, and Wheeler, 2016, Cladistics, 32: 138, and Peloso, Raxworthy, Wheeler, and Frost, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 111: 56–64. Peloso, Frost, Richards, Rodrigues, Donnellan, Matsui, Raxworthy, Biju, Lemmon, Lemmon, and Wheeler, 2016, Cladistics, 32: 113–140, had recovered Platypelis to be paraphyletic with respect to Cophyla and synonymized the genera. See accounts by Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 70–87, and Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 132–137, and who noted that many unnamed species are contained within this genus. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543–583, suggested that Platypelis (along with Stumpffia and Rhombophryne) renders Plethodontohyla paraphyletic and they provided a phylogenetic estimate of exemplar species.
Contained taxa (17 sp.):
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