Nanohyla

Nanohyla is a genus of frogs in the family Microhylidae. Members of the genus are known as pygmy narrow-mouthed frogs. The members of the genus are found throughout Southeast Asia in the countries of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and the Philippines.[1][2]

Nanohyla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Microhylidae
Subfamily: Microhylinae
Genus: Nanohyla
Poyarkov, Gorin & Scherz, 2021
Type species
Microhyla annectens
Boulenger, 1900
Species

9, see text.

Synonyms
  • Microhyla (in part) Tschudi, 1838

Taxonomy

All the members of Nanohyla were formerly placed in Microhyla; however, a 2021 study used morphological and phylogenetic evidence to show that Nanohyla forms a separate lineage from Microhyla and Glyphoglossus.[2]

Species

There are currently nine species placed in Nanohyla:[1][2]

References

  1. Frost, Darrel R. (2021). "Nanohyla Gorin, Scherz, Korost, and Poyarkov, 2021". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1. American Museum of Natural History. doi:10.5531/db.vz.0001. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  2. Gorin, Vladislav A.; Scherz, Mark D.; Korost, Dmitriy V.; Poyarkov, Nikolay A. (2021-12-01). "Consequences of parallel miniaturisation in Microhylinae (Anura, Microhylidae), with the description of a new genus of diminutive South East Asian frogs". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 97 (1): 21–54. doi:10.3897/zse.97.57968.
  3. Hoang van, Chung & Anh, Luong & Nguyen, Truong & Orlov, Nikolai & Chen, Youhua & Wang, Bin & Jian-Ping, Jiang. (2020). A new species of Microhyla (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from Langbian Plateau, Central Vietnam. Asian Herpetological Research. 11. 161–182. http://10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.190060.


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