Cophylinae
| Cophylinae | |
|---|---|
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| Anodonthyla boulengerii | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Microhylidae |
| Subfamily: | Cophylinae Cope, 1889 |
| Type genus | |
| Cophyla Boettger, 1880 | |
| Genera | |
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7 genera with 64 species, see article. | |
Cophylinae is a subfamily of microhylid frogs endemic to Madagascar. It has at least 64 species in seven genera.[1]
Genera
As of early 2014, the following genera are recognized:[1]
- Anodonthyla Müller, 1892 (11 species)
- Cophyla Boettger, 1880 (3 species)
- Madecassophryne Guibé, 1974 (monotypic)
- Platypelis Boulenger, 1882 (13 species)
- Plethodontohyla Boulenger, 1882 (9 species)
- Rhombophryne Boettger, 1880 (11 species)
- Stumpffia Boettger, 1881 (16 species)
Biology
Cophylines are characterized by a derived mode of larval development: whereas most microhylids have a specialized filter-feeding tadpole, cophylines have non-feeding tadpoles that develop either in tree holes, terrestrial foam nests, or terrestrial jelly nests.[2] Most cophylines have very simple advertisement calls, consisting of single melodious notes that are repeated after regular intervals and for long periods of time, usually lasting several minutes. Correlated to the reproductive mode of the various cophyline lineages is their arboreal versus terrestrial or fossorial ecology, and apparently, multiple evolutionary shifts between arboreal and terrestrial habits have occurred in this subfamily.[3]
References
- 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Cophylinae Cope, 1889". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ↑ Blommers-Schlösser RMA (1975). "Observations on the larval development of some Malagasy frogs, with notes on their ecology and biology (Anura: Dyscophinae, Scaphiophryninae and Cophylinae)". Beaufortia 24: 7–26.
- ↑ Andreone F; Vences M; Vieites DR; Glaw F; Meyer M (2005). "Recurrent ecological adaptations revealed through a molecular analysis of the secretive cophyline frogs of Madagascar". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34: 315–322. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.10.013.
Bibliography
- Vences M., Glaw F., Köhler J. & Wollenberg K. Molecular phylogeny, morphology and bioacoustics reveal five additional species of arboreal microhylid frogs of the genus Anodonthyla from Madagascar. Contributions to Zoology 2010; 79(1): 1-32. full text released under license CC-by