Uperoleia Gray, 1841

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Myobatrachidae > Genus: Uperoleia
28 species

Uperoleia Gray, 1841, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 1, 7: 90. Type species: Uperoleia marmorata Gray, 1841, by monotypy.

Hyperolia Agassiz, 1846, Nomencl. Zool., Fasc. 12: 384. Unjustified emendation.

Glauertia Loveridge, 1933, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8: 89. Type species: Glauertia russelli Loveridge, 1933, by monotypy. Synonymy by Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 29 (79): 9.

Hosmeria Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 2. Type species: Uperoleia marmorata laevigata Keferstein, 1867, by original designation. Synonymy by Catullo, Doughty, Roberts, and Keogh, 2011, Zootaxa, 2902: 15. See also Tyler, 1985, Herpetol. Rev., 16: 69; Australian Society of Herpetologists, 1987, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 44: 116–121; Tyler, 1988, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 45: 152; Holthius, 1988, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 45 and decision by ICZN (Anonymous, 1991, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 48: 337–338).

Prohartia Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3. Type species: Pseudophryne fimbrianus Parker, 1926, by original designation. Synonymy by Catullo, Doughty, Roberts, and Keogh, 2011, Zootaxa, 2902: 15. See Tyler, 1985, Herpetol. Rev., 16: 69; Australian Society of Herpetologists, 1987, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 44: 116–121; Tyler, 1988, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 45: 152; Holthius, 1988, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 45 and decision by ICZN (Anonymous, 1991, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 48: 337–338).

Common Names

Australian Toadlets (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 95).

Distribution

Northern and eastern Australia; southern lowlands of New Guinea.

Comment

The systematics and biology of some Australian species were reviewed by Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 29 (79): 1–64; Davies and Littlejohn, 1986, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 110: 111–143; and Davies, McDonald, and Corben, 1986, Proc. R. Soc. Victoria, 98: 147–188. See Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2, for keys and accounts. See comment under Spicospina. Catullo, Doughty, Roberts, and Keogh, 2011, Zootaxa, 2902: 1–43, provided a molecular phylogeny, morphological identification key, and accounts of the species. Catullo, Doughty, and Keogh, 2014, Zootaxa, 3753: 251–262, reported on molecular phylogenetics. Catullo and Keogh, 2014, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 79: 106–117, provided a multi-locus phylogeny of the species and inferred a biogeography driven by cycles of aridification. These authors noted cases where populations of one species contained the mtDNA (e.g., some individuals of Uperoleia inundata) of others and other cases where nuDNA did not recover some species as natural groups (e.g., Uperoleia borealis, Uperoleia lithomoda). Catullo, Lanfear, Doughty, and Keogh, 2014, J. Biogeograph., 41: 659–672, provided a multilocus phylogeny and biogeography of Uperoleia, as well as presenting data on calls and morphology, with special attention to the species of northern Australia. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 118–131, provided an identification key, brief accounts, photographs, and polygon distribution maps for the Australian species. 

Contained taxa (28 sp.):

Uperoleia altissima Davies, Watson, McDonald, Trenerry, and Werren, 1993
Uperoleia arenicola Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981
Uperoleia aspera Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981
Uperoleia borealis Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981
Uperoleia crassa Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981
Uperoleia daviesae Young, Tyler, and Kent, 2005
Uperoleia fusca Davies, McDonald, and Corben, 1986
Uperoleia glandulosa Davies, Mahony, and Roberts, 1985
Uperoleia gurrumuli Catullo and Keogh, 2021
Uperoleia laevigata Keferstein, 1867
Uperoleia lithomoda Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981
Uperoleia littlejohni Davies, McDonald, and Corben, 1986
Uperoleia mahonyi Clulow, Anstis, Keogh, and Catullo, 2016
Uperoleia marmorata Gray, 1841
Uperoleia martini Davies and Littlejohn, 1986
Uperoleia micra Doughty and Roberts, 2008
Uperoleia micromeles Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981
Uperoleia mimula Davies, McDonald, and Corben, 1986
Uperoleia minima Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981
Uperoleia mjobergii (Andersson, 1916)
Uperoleia orientalis (Parker, 1940)
Uperoleia rugosa (Andersson, 1916)
Uperoleia russelli (Loveridge, 1933)
Uperoleia saxatilis Catullo, Doughty, Roberts, and Keogh, 2011
Uperoleia stridera Catullo, Doughty, and Keogh, 2014
Uperoleia talpa Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981
Uperoleia trachyderma Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981
Uperoleia tyleri Davies and Littlejohn, 1986

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