Austrochaperina

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Amphibia
Subclassis: Lissamphibia
Ordo: Anura
Subordo: Neobatrachia
Familia: Microhylidae
Subfamilia: Asterophryinae
Genus: Austrochaperina
Species: A. adamantina - A. adelphe - A. aquilonia - A. archboldi - A. basipalmata - A. blumi - A. brevipes - A. derongo - A. fryi - A. gracilipes - A. guttata - A. hooglandi - A. kosarek - A. macrorhyncha - A. mehelyi - A. minutissima - A. novaebritanniae - A. palmipes - A. parkeri - A. pluvialis - A. polysticta - A. rivularis - A. robusta - A. septentrionalis - A. yelaensis

Name

Austrochaperina Fry, 1912

Type species: Austrochaperina robusta Fry, 1912

References

* Fry, 1912, Rec. Aust. Mus., 9: 93.
* Amphibian Species of the World 5.1 Austrochaperina access date 13 June 2008

Vernacular names
English: Land Frogs

Austrochaperina is a genus of microhylid frogs found on New Guinea, New Britain and Australia.[1]

Taxonomy

The genus was removed from the synonymy of Sphenophryne by Richard Zweifel in 2000. However, as currently defined, it might not be monophyletic, with two monophyletic units of Austrochaperina more closely related to parts of Copiula than with each other.[1]

Description

Austrochaperina are rather generalized frogs in their morphology and appear mostly to inhabit leaf litter. They reach maximum sizes between 20 and 50 mm (0.79 and 1.97 in) snout–vent length. Finger and toe tips are flattened and disc-like. Most species lack toe webbing.[2]

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Austrochaperina:[1]

Austrochaperina adamantina Zweifel, 2000
Austrochaperina adelphe (Zweifel, 1985) — Peeping land frog
Austrochaperina alexanderi Günther, Richards, and Dahl, 2014
Austrochaperina aquilonia Zweifel, 2000
Austrochaperina archboldi Zweifel, 2000
Austrochaperina basipalmata (Van Kampen, 1906)
Austrochaperina beehleri Günther and Richards, 2019
Austrochaperina blumi Zweifel, 2000
Austrochaperina brachypus Günther and Richards, 2019
Austrochaperina brevipes (Boulenger, 1897) — Victoria land frog
Austrochaperina fryi (Zweifel, 1962) — Whistling land frog
Austrochaperina fulva Günther and Richards, 2019
Austrochaperina gracilipes Fry, 1912 — Golden land frog
Austrochaperina hooglandi (Zweifel, 1967) — New Guinea land frog
Austrochaperina kosarek Zweifel, 2000
Austrochaperina laurae Günther, Richards, and Dahl, 2014
Austrochaperina macrorhyncha (Van Kampen, 1906) — Manikion land frog
Austrochaperina mehelyi (Parker, 1934) — Mehely's land frog
Austrochaperina minutissima Günther, 2009
Austrochaperina novaebritanniae Zweifel, 2000
Austrochaperina palmipes (Zweifel, 1956) — Dayman land frog
Austrochaperina parkeri Zweifel, 2000
Austrochaperina pluvialis (Zweifel, 1965) — Flecked land frog
Austrochaperina polysticta (Méhely, 1901) — Morobe land frog
Austrochaperina punctata (Van Kampen, 1913)
Austrochaperina robusta Fry, 1912 — Chirping land frog
Austrochaperina rudolfarndti Günther, 2017
Austrochaperina septentrionalis Allison and Kraus, 2003
Austrochaperina yelaensis Zweifel, 2000

The AmphibiaWeb[3] includes a few additional species that Peloso and colleagues moved to Copiula in 2016.[4]
References

Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Austrochaperina Fry, 1912". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
Zweifel, R. G. (2000). "Partition of the Australopapuan microhylid frog genus Sphenophryne with descriptions of new species". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 253: 1–130.
"Microhylidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
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.