''Plethodontohyla'' is a 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 ...

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

Species

There are at present 11 species: * ''

Plethodontohyla alluaudi ''Plethodontohyla alluaudi'' is a frog belonging to the Madagascar-endemic subfamily Cophylinae of the family Microhylidae. It is endemic to southeastern Madagascar. It is a terrestrial and fossorial frog that occurs in rainforest, including lit ...

'' (Mocquard, 1901) * '' Plethodontohyla bipunctata'' (Guibé, 1974) * '' Plethodontohyla brevipes'' Boulenger, 1882 * ''

Plethodontohyla fonetana ''Plethodontohyla'' is a genus of microhylid frogs endemic to Madagascar. Species There are at present 11 species: * ''Plethodontohyla alluaudi'' (Mocquard, 1901) * '' Plethodontohyla bipunctata'' (Guibé, 1974) * '' Plethodontohyla brevipes'' ...

'' Glaw, Köhler, Bora, Rabibisoa, Ramilijaona, and Vences, 2007 * ''

Plethodontohyla guentheri ''Plethodontohyla'' is a genus of microhylid frogs endemic to Madagascar. Species There are at present 11 species: * ''Plethodontohyla alluaudi'' (Mocquard, 1901) * '' Plethodontohyla bipunctata'' (Guibé, 1974) * '' Plethodontohyla brevipes'' ...

'' Glaw and Vences, 2007 * ''

Plethodontohyla inguinalis ''Plethodontohyla inguinalis'' is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threaten ...

'' Boulenger, 1882 * '' Plethodontohyla laevis'' (Boettger, 1913) * ''

Plethodontohyla mihanika ''Plethodontohyla mihanika'' is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of ...

'' Vences, Raxworthy, Nussbaum, and Glaw, 2003 * '' Plethodontohyla notosticta'' (Günther, 1877) * ''

Plethodontohyla ocellata ''Plethodontohyla ocellata'' is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss Habitat destruction (also term ...

'' Noble and Parker, 1926 * '' Plethodontohyla tuberata'' (Peters, 1883)

Taxonomy

The following species were formerly classed as ''Plethodontoyhla'' species but have since been moved to the genus ''

Rhombophryne ''Rhombophryne'' is a genus of microhylid frogs endemic to Madagascar. It is currently estimated to include more than 23 species, but only 20 of these are currently described. The common name 'diamond frog' has been proposed and used for members ...

'': * ''

Rhombophryne coronata ''Rhombophryne coronata'' is a frog of the family Microhylidae. It is endemic to eastern Madagascar. ''Rhombophryne coronata'' is a terrestrial and fossorial species that inhabits primary and somewhat degraded rainforests as well as pine planta ...

'' (Vences & Glaw, 2003) * ''

Rhombophryne guentherpetersi ''Rhombophryne guentherpetersi'' is a frog of the family Microhylidae. It is endemic to northern Madagascar and known from the Tsaratanana Massif. It inhabits high-elevation forest and, perhaps, montane grassland, at elevations of above sea lev ...

'' (Guibé, 1974) * '' Rhombophryne laevipes'' (Mocquard, 1895) * '' Rhombophryne minuta'' (Guibé, 1975) * ''

Rhombophryne serratopalpebrosa ''Rhombophryne serratopalpebrosa'' is a species of frog of the Madagascar endemic microhylid subfamily Cophylinae. Genetic evidence revealed that it is a species complex, in need of resolution. This work has made significant progress, and five r ...

'' (Guibé, 1975) The

taxon In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; plural taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular nam ...

'' was moved to ''

'' by Frost et al. in 2006, but was transferred back to ''Plethodontohyla'' after review of its taxonomic status in early 2018, along with the newly resurrected '' Plethodontohyla laevis''. In addition, the species '' Rhombophryne matavy'' was erroneously transferred to ''Plethodontohyla'' in 2016 based on a misidentified DNA sequence, and was later transferred back to ''Rhombophryne''.

References

Cophylinae Amphibian genera Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger Endemic frogs of Madagascar {{Microhylidae-stub