Boulenophrys is a genus of frogs in the family Megophryidae. They occur in the China, Mainland Southeast Asia and Northeast India. It had been placed variously as a subgenus or synonymy of Megophrys. Dubois, Ohler and Pyron first recognized that Panophrys is preoccupied and employed Boulenophrys as the generic name rather than Tianophrys under the Principle of First Revisor.[1]

Boulenophrys
Boulenophrys baishanzuensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Megophryidae
Subfamily: Megophryinae
Genus: Boulenophrys
Fei, Ye & Jiang, 2016
Type species
Boulenophrys boettgeri
Boulenger, 1899)
Synonyms[1]
  • Panophrys Rao & Yang, 1997
  • Tianophrys Fei & Ye, 2016

The most of the species in this genus were formerly considered species of the genus Megophrys.

Taxonomy edit

The following species are recognised in the genus Boulenophrys:[2]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Dubois, Alain; Ohler, Annemarie; Pyron, R. Alexander (26 February 2021). "New concepts and methods for phylogenetic taxonomy and nomenclature in zoology, exemplified by a new ranked cladonomy of recent amphibians (Lissamphibia)". Megataxa. 5 (1). doi:10.11646/megataxa.5.1.1.
  2. ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2021). "Boulenophrys Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2016, 1822". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  3. ^ Zhaochi Zeng, Jian Wang, Honghui Chen, Weiwen Xiao, Binbin Zhan, Yuanhang Li and Shishi Lin. 2024. A New Species of the Genus Boulenophrys (Anura, Megophryidae) from Eastern Guangdong, China. Asian Herpetological Research. 15(1); https://www.sciengine.com/AHR/doi/10.3724/ahr.2095-0357.2023.0038
  4. ^ Boulenophrys hengshanensis Qian, Hu, Mo, Gao, Zhang & Yang, 2023