Microhylinae Günther, 1858 (1843)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae
120 species

Hylaedactyli Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 33. Type genus: Hylaedactylus Duméril anbd Bibron, 1841.

Hylaedactylidae — Bonaparte, 1850, Conspect. Syst. Herpetol. Amph.: 1 p. Günther, 1858, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1858: 346.

Hylaedactylina — Bonaparte, 1850, Conspect. Syst. Herpetol. Amph.: 1 p.

Micrhylidae Günther, 1858, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1858: 346. Type genus: Micrhyla Duméril and Bibron, 1841 (an incorrect subsequent spelling of Microhyla Tschudi, 1838).

Michrylidae — Fatio, 1872, Fauna Vert. Suisse, 3: 230. [sic]

Hylaedactylida — Knauer, 1878, Naturgesch. Lurche: 112.

Kalophryninae — Noble, 1931, Biol. Amph.: 451.

Microhylinae — Noble, 1931, Biol. Amph.: 451.

Cacopinae Noble, 1931, Biol. Amph.: 532. Type genus: Cacopus Günther, 1864. Synonymy by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 71.

Kaloulinae Noble, 1931, Biol. Amph.: 538. Type genus: Kaloula Gray, 1831. Synonymy by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 71.

Kaloulidae — Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 16.

Microhylidae — Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: i.

Microhyloidea — Laurent, 1967, Acta Zool. Lilloana, 22: 208. Duellman, 1975, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 42: 5.

Microhyloidae — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 309. Epifamily.

Microhylini — Dubois, 2005, Alytes, 23: 15.

Calluellinae Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 278. Type genus: Calluella Stoliczka, 1872. Synonymy by implication of results of 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: 230.

Microhylidae — Bossuyt and Roelants, 2009, in Hedges and Kumar (eds.), Timetree of Life: 358.

Chaperininae Peloso, Frost, Richards, Rodrigues, Donnellan, Matsui, Raxworthy, Biju, Lemmon, Lemmon, and Wheeler, 2016, Cladistics, 32: 135. Type genus: Chaperina Mocquard, 1892.  Synonymy by Streicher, Loader, Varela-Jaramillo, Montoya, and de Sá, 2020, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 146 (106771): 1. 

Microhylini — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 219. Tribe. 

Chaperinina — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 219. Subtribe. 

Hylaedactylina — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 219. Subtribe. 

Cacopinia — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 219. infratribe. 

Hylaedactylinia — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 219. Infratribe. 

Phrynellinia Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 219. Type genus: Phrynella Boulenger, 1897. Infratribe. 

Microhylina — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 220. Subtribe. 

Micrylettina Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 220. Type genus: Micryletta Dubois, 1987. Subtribe. 

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Eastern Asia from India and Korea to the Greater Sunda Islands.

Comment

Dubois, 2005, Alytes, 23: 16, regarded all New World members of Microhylinae (sensu lato) as the tribe Gastrophrynini, and the Old World component as Microhylini, without producing any evidence of either's monophyly. 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, demonstrated that Microhylinae as previously considered by authors was a composite of a New World clade (Gastrophryninae in their sense and as used in this catalog), an Old World clade (Microhylinae, as redelimited), and other New and Old World genera that clustered around the base of the microhylid tree (e.g., Synapturanus, Kalophrynus) or near to other nominal subfamilies (e.g., Ramanella). These authors did not assign to subfamily several genera of former microhylines. See comment under Gastrophryninae. Bossuyt and Roelants, 2009, in Hedges and Kumar (eds.), Timetree of Life: 357–364, suggested on the basis of time of divergence that traditional Microhylinae should be regarded as a family, Microhylidae. Matsui, Hamidy, Belabut, Ahmad, Panha, Sudin, Khonsue, Oh, Yong, Jiang, and Nishikawa, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 167–176, rejected Microhylinae as monophyletic, with both Dyscophinae and Asterophryinae imbedded within it. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543–583, suggested Microhylinae to be monophyletic (with respect to their set of exemplars) and the sister taxon of Dyscophinae; they also provided a phylogenetic estimate of their exemplar genera. Garg and Biju, 2019, Sci. Rep. (Nature, London), 9 (1906): 1–13,  discussed the biogeography of the Mysticellus–Micryletta clade. Fouquet, Leblanc, Framit, Réjaud, Rodrigues, Castroviejo-Fisher, Peloso, Prates, Manzi, Suescun, Baroni, Moraes, Recoder, Marques-Souza, Vechio, Camacho, Ghellere, Rojas-Runjaic, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Carvalho, Gordo, Menin, Kok, Hrbek, Werneck, Crawford, Ron, Mueses-Cisneros, Rojas-Zamora, Pavan, Simões, Ernst, and Fabre, 2021, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 132: 233–256, provided molecular evidence for the paraphyly of Microhylinae with respect to Adelastinae + Otophryninae.

Contained taxa (120 sp.):

Chaperina Mocquard, 1892 (1 sp.)
Glyphoglossus Gunther, 1869 "1868" (10 sp.)
Kaloula Gray, 1831 (18 sp.)
Metaphrynella Parker, 1934 (2 sp.)
Microhyla Tschudi, 1838 (51 sp.)
Micryletta Dubois, 1987 (13 sp.)
Mysticellus Garg and Biju, 2019 (1 sp.)
Nanohyla Poyarkov, Gorin, and Scherz, 2021 (10 sp.)
Phrynella Boulenger, 1887 (1 sp.)
Uperodon Duméril and Bibron, 1841 (13 sp.)

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