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Genus of amphibians

Nanohyla
Nanohyla perparva
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

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.

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.

Species

There are currently nine species placed in Nanohyla:

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. doi:10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.190060.
Taxon identifiers
Nanohyla


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