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Stereocyclops Cope, 1870
Stereocyclops Cope, 1870 "1869", Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 11: 165. Type species: Sterocyclops incrassatus Cope, 1870 "1869", by monotypy.
Emydops Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920, Rev. Mus. Paulista, São Paulo, 12: 286. Type species: Emydops hypomelas Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920, by monotypy. Preoccupied by Emydops Broom, 1912. Synonymy by Carvalho, 1948, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 84: 4.
Ribeirina Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 115. Replacement name for Emydops Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920. Synonymy by Carvalho, 1948, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 84: 4; Bokermann, 1952, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 10: 287.
Hyophryne Carvalho, 1954, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 555: 4. Type species: Hyophryne histrio Carvalho, 1954, by original designation. Synonymy by de Sá, Streicher, Sekonyela, Forlani, Loader, Greenbaum, Richards, and Haddad, 2012, BMC Evol. Biol., 12(241): 1-21.
English Names
Brazilian Dumpy Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 93).
Yellow Frogs (Hyophryne [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 90).
Distribution
Atlantic forest of eastern Brazil from Alagoas south to São Paulo.
Comment
Most closely allied to (and morphologically more primitive than) Hyophryne and Ctenophryne, according to Carvalho, 1954, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 555: 4. Formerly in the New World component of Microhylinae; Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 225, did not address this taxon in their study, and they removed Stereocyclops from any subfamily pending resolution of its phylogenetic placement. van der Meijden, Vences, Hoegg, Boistel, Channing, and Meyer, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 44: 1017-1030, did not address this taxon. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, assigned this taxon to Gastrophryninae without comment. de Sá, Streicher, Sekonyela, Forlani, Loader, Greenbaum, Richards, and Haddad, 2012, BMC Evol. Biol., 12(241): 1-21, transferred Stereocyclops into Gastrophryninae on the basis of molecular evidence.
Contained taxa (4 sp.):
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