Micryletta Dubois, 1987

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae > Genus: Micryletta
14 species

Micryletta Dubois, 1987, Alytes, 6: 4. Type species: Microhyla inornata Boulenger, 1890, by original designation.

Common Names

Paddy Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 91; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 8).

小姬蛙属 (Chinese: Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: App. 1: 15; Yuan, Chen, Wu, Li, and Che, 2022, Biodiversity Sci., 30 (4: 21470): 4). 

Distribution

Northeastern India and Taiwan to Yunnan, China, and West Malaysia and Sumatra; Nicobar and Andaman Is. (India).

Comment

This taxon was not recognized subsequently by Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 163, as distinct from Microhyla. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 100, regarded Microhyla erythropoda as a member of Micryletta; without discussion. Formerly in the Old 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, removed Micryletta 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, on the basis of DNA sequence data placed Micryletta as a member of Microhylinae (sensu stricto). Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, placed this genus as the sister taxon of a group composed of Chaperina, Glyphoglossus, Calluella, and Microhyla. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2:916-924, provided a key, accounts, and spot maps for Chinese species. Miller, Zug, Wogan, Lee, and Mulcahy, 2021, Ichthyol. & Herpetol., 109: 245–257, discussed phylogeny and distribution, with a primary focus on Myanmar. 

Contained taxa (14 sp.):

Micryletta aishani Das, Garg, Hamidy, Smith, and Biju, 2019
Micryletta dissimulans Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Pawangkhanant, Gorin, Chomdej, Che, and Poyarkov, 2020
Micryletta erythropoda (Tarkhnishvili, 1994)
Micryletta hekouensis Liu, Hou, Mo, and Rao, 2021
Micryletta immaculata Yang and Poyarkov, 2021
Micryletta inornata (Boulenger, 1890)
Micryletta lineata (Taylor, 1962)
Micryletta melanops Poyarkov, Nguyen, Yang, and Gorin, 2021
Micryletta menglienica (Yang and Su, 1980)
Micryletta nigromaculata Poyarkov, Nguyen, Duong, Gorin, and Yang, 2018
Micryletta steinegeri (Boulenger, 1909)
Micryletta subaraji Sankar, Law, Law, Shivaram, Abraham, and Chan, 2022
Micryletta sumatrana Munir, Hamidy, Matsui, Kusrini, and Nishikawa, 2020
Micryletta thongphaphumensis Cao, Suwannapoom, Kilunda, Wu, and Che, 2024

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