Drymomantis Peters, 1882

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pelodryadidae > Genus: Drymomantis
3 species

Hylomantis Peters, 1880, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1880: 224. Type species: Hylomantis fallax Peters, 1880, by monotypy. Preoccupied by Hylomantis Peters, 1873 "1872". 

Drymomantis Peters, 1882, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1882: 8. Replacement name for Hylomantis Peters, 1880. Resurrected, without discussion, by Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 5.

Dryomantis — Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 37, 41, 684. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Drymomantis Peters, 1882.

Common Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Eastern Australia. 

Comment

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) for discussion of why recognition was resisted by Australian workers. Donnellan, Mahony, Esquerré, Brennan, Price, Lemmon, Lemmon, Günther, Monis, Bertozzi, Keogh, Shea, and Richards, 2025, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 204(2: zlaf015): 44, recognized the genus on phylogenetic (molecular, adult and larval morphology) grounds, placing it in their Drymomantis subclade of their Litoria-Rawlinsonia clade and represent part of the Litoria bicolor group of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 1–47.

Contained taxa (3 sp.):

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