Corythomantis Boulenger, 1896

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Corythomantis
2 species

Corythomantis Boulenger, 1896, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 17: 405. Type species: Corythomantis greeningi Boulenger, 1896, by monotypy.

English Names

Greening's Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 52).

Distribution

Xeric and subhumid regions of from northeastern Maranhão to central Tocantins, to north-central Goiás east to Alagoas, and the northern Espinhaço Mountain Range, from middle Bahia state, where this mountain range ends, southward to northern Minas Gerais state, Brazil. 

Comment

In Lophyohylini of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 107-108. See Blotto, Lyra, Cardoso, Rodrigues, Dias, Marciano, Vechio, Orrico, Brandão, Assis, Lantyer-Silva, Rutherford, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Solé, Baldo, Nunes, Cajade, Torres, Grant, Jungfer, Silva, Haddad, and Faivovich, 2021, Cladistics, 37: 36–72, for discussion of phylogenetics.

Contained taxa (2 sp.):

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