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Microhylidae :
A complicated group with 67 genera and over 300 species. Small to medium sized (up to 100mm) terrestrial or arboreal frogs distributed throughout the Americas, Asia, Africa and Madagascar. They display a variety of reproductive strategies including aquatic larvae, larvae without mouthparts and direct development. Species are similar in body plans through the presence of stout hind legs, short snout, and globose bodies. They have a generalized teardrop shape. Frogs of the genus Breviceps have such short limbs relative to their volume that they are unable to amplex; as a result they have developed an adhesive secretion from the epidermis to allow males and females to “stick” while mating takes places. Morphological characters for this group are: 1) cornified denticles absent in larvae; 2) glottis fully exposed in buccal floor in larvae; 3) nares not perforated in larvae; 4) ventral velum divided medially in larvae; 5) two or three palatal folds in adults.
Genus :
Adelastes (1 species)
Albericus (14 species)
Altigius (1 species)
Anodonthyla (5 species)
Aphantophryne (3 species)
Arcovomer (1 species)
Asterophrys (2 species)
Austrochaperina (24 species)
Balebreviceps (1 species)
Barygenys (7 species)
Breviceps (16 species)
Calluella (7 species)
Callulina (2 species)
Callulops (17 species)
Chaperina (1 species)
Chiasmocleis (19 species)
Choerophryne (4 species)
Cophixalus (40 species)
Cophyla (2 species)
Copiula (8 species)
Ctenophryne (2 species)
Dasypops (1 species)
Dermatonotus (1 species)
Dyscophus (3 species)
Elachistocleis (6 species)
Gastrophryne (5 species)
Gastrophrynoides (1 species)
Genyophryne (1 species)
Glyphoglossus (1 species)
Hamptophryne (1 species)
Hoplophryne (2 species)
Hylophorbus (7 species)
Hyophryne (1 species)
Hypopachus (2 species)
Kalophrynus (15 species)
Kaloula (15 species)
Liophryne (6 species)
Madecassophryne (1 species)
Mantophryne (3 species)
Melanobatrachus (1 species)
Metaphrynella (2 species)
Microhyla (29 species)
Micryletta (2 species)
Myersiella (1 species)
Nelsonophryne (2 species)
Oreophryne (43 species)
Otophryne (3 species)
Oxydactyla (5 species)
Paradoxophyla (2 species)
Parhoplophryne (1 species)
Pherohapsis (1 species)
Phrynella (1 species)
Phrynomantis (5 species)
Plethodontohyla (15 species)
Probreviceps (5 species)
Ramanella (9 species)
Relictivomer (1 species)
Rhombophryne (1 species)
Scaphiophryne (10 species)
Spelaeophryne (1 species)
Sphenophryne (1 species)
Stereocyclops (2 species)
Synapturanus (3 species)
Syncope (3 species)
Uperodon (2 species)
Xenobatrachus (19 species)
Xenorhina (10 species) |
