''Hamptophryne'' (common name: bleating frogs) is a small genus of

microhylid The Microhylidae, commonly known as narrow-mouthed frogs, are a geographically widespread family (biology), family of frogs. The 683 species are in 63 genera and 11 subfamilies, which is the largest number of genera of any frog family. Evolution ...

frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely Carnivore, carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order (biology), order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-f ...

s from

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southe ...

. The genus was previously

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, but because of the close phylogenetic relationship between ''Hamptophryne'' and ''Altigius'', another monotypic genus, the latter was placed in

synonymy A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language, the words ''begin'', ''start'', ''commence'', and ''initiate'' are all ...

with ''Hamptophryne'' in 2012.

Species

There are two species in the genus: * '' Hamptophryne alios'' (Wild, 1995) * '' Hamptophryne boliviana'' (Parker, 1927)

References

Microhylidae Amphibians of South America Amphibian genera Taxa named by Antenor Leitão de Carvalho Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Microhylidae-stub