Glyphoglossus
| Glyphoglossus | |
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| Glyphoglossus molossus, the type species | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Microhylidae |
| Subfamily: | Microhylinae |
| Genus: | Glyphoglossus Günther, 1869 |
| Type species | |
| Glyphoglossus molossus Günther, 1869
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| Species | |
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9 species (see text) | |
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Glyphoglossus is a genus of frogs in the family Microhylidae.[1][2] The genus occurs in Southeastern Asia.[1] Common name balloon frogs has been coined for it, whereas the common name squat frogs refers to the Calluella species that are now included in this genus.[1] They are fossorial frogs that spend only limited time on the soil surface and are typically known from only few specimens.[3]
Taxonomy
Glyphoglossus, as currently delimited, includes species formerly included in a separate genus, Calluella. Molecular genetic data strongly suggest that Glyphoglossus is nested within Calluella.[1][3][4] Consequently, Calluella was brought into synonymy of Glyphoglossus.[4]
Description
Diagnostic characteristics of Calluella are wide head and flattened body; reduced eyes; presence of maxillary and vomerine teeth; toes with reduced webbing; circular pupil; large, oval, and entire tongue; palate having paired dermal ridges; and a large compressed inner metatarsal tubercle under each foot. Species of this Genus are found in the range from Southern China to Indo-Malaya[5]
Species
There are nine recognized species:[1][2]
- Glyphoglossus brooksii (Boulenger, 1904)
- Glyphoglossus capsus (Das, Min, Hsu, Hertwig, and Haas, 2014)
- Glyphoglossus flavus (Kiew, 1984)
- Glyphoglossus guttulatus (Blyth, 1856)
- Glyphoglossus minutus (Das, Yaakob, and Lim, 2004)
- Glyphoglossus molossus Günther, 1869
- Glyphoglossus smithi (Barbour and Noble, 1916)
- Glyphoglossus volzi (Van Kampen, 1905)
- Glyphoglossus yunnanensis (Boulenger, 1919)
References
- ^ a b c d e f Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Glyphoglossus Gunther, 1869 "1868"". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
- ^ a b "Microhylidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
- ^ a b Das, I.; Min, P.Y.; Hsu, W.W.; Hertwig, S.T. & Haas, A. (2014). "Red hot chili pepper. A new Calluella Stoliczka, 1872 (Lissamphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from Sarawak, East Malaysia (Borneo)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3785 (4): 550–560. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3785.4.4. PMID 24872245.
- ^ a b Peloso, Pedro L.V.; Frost, Darrel R.; Richards, Stephen J.; Rodrigues, Miguel T.; Donnellan, Stephen; Matsui, Masafumi; Raxworthy, Cristopher J.; Biju, S.D.; Lemmon, Emily Moriarty; Lemmon, Alan R. & Wheeler, Ward C. (2016). "The impact of anchored phylogenomics and taxon sampling on phylogenetic inference in narrow-mouthed frogs (Anura, Microhylidae)". Cladistics. 32 (2): 113–140. doi:10.1111/cla.12118. S2CID 84925667.
- ^ Das, I.; Yaakob, N. S. & Lim, B. L. (2004). "New species of Calluella Stoliczka, 1872 (Anura : Microhylidae) from Taman Negara, Pahang State, Peninsular Malaysia" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 52: 257–260.