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Hymenochirus Boulenger, 1896
Hymenochirus Boulenger, 1896, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 18: 420. Type species: Xenopus boettgeri Tornier, 1896, by monotypy.
Common Names
Dwarf Clawed Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 96).
Distribution
Forested equatorial Africa from Nigeria and Cameroon south through Gabon and east throughout the Congo River Basin.
Comment
Sokol, 1977, J. Morphol., 154: 357, discussed intergeneric affinities. Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 304, provided a key to species. 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: 119, considered Hymenochirus to be the sister taxon of remaining pipids. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their molecular study, considered Hymenochirus to be the sister taxon of Silurana + Xenopus. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 287–261, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Frétey, Dewynter, and Blanc, 2011, Clé de détermination, Amph. Afri. Centr. Angola: 1–232, provided a key for identification in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 40–41, provided brief accounts, photographs, and range maps for the species.
Contained taxa (4 sp.):
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