Copiula is a genus of microhylid frogs endemic to New Guinea. The common name Mehely frogs has been coined for them.[1] They are leaf-litter inhabitants.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Microhylidae |
| Subfamily: | Asterophryinae |
| Genus: | Copiula Méhelÿ, 1901 |
| Type species | |
| Phrynixalus oxyrhinus Boulenger, 1898
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| Species | |
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14 species (see text) | |
Taxonomy
editCopiula is probably not monophyletic. Some former Austrochaperina species have already been transferred to this genus, and further ones might follow when more data became available.[1][3]
Species
editThere are at present 14 species in this genus:[1]
- Copiula alpestris (Zweifel, 2000)
- Copiula annanoreenae Günther, Richards, and Dahl, 2014
- Copiula derongo (Zweifel, 2000)
- Copiula exspectata Günther, 2002
- Copiula fistulans Menzies and Tyler, 1977 — Lae Mehely Frog
- Copiula guttata (Zweifel, 2000)
- Copiula lennarti Günther, Richards, and Dahl, 2014
- Copiula major Günther, 2002
- Copiula minor Menzies and Tyler, 1977 — Milne Bay Mehely Frog
- Copiula obsti Günther, 2002
- Copiula oxyrhina (Boulenger, 1898) — Misima Island Mehely Frog
- Copiula pipiens Burton and Stocks, 1986 — Wirui Mehely Frog
- Copiula rivularis (Zweifel, 2000)
- Copiula tyleri Burton, 1990 — Sepik Mehely Frog
The AmphibiaWeb[4] reports fewer species, with species that Peloso and colleagues moved in 2016 from Austrochaperina and Oxydactyla missing.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b c Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Copiula Méhely, 1901". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- ^ Zweifel, R. G. (2000). "Partition of the Australopapuan microhylid frog genus Sphenophryne with descriptions of new species". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 253: 1–130. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)253<0001:POTAMF>2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/1600. S2CID 85621508.
- ^ a b Peloso, Pedro L.V.; Frost, Darrel R.; Richards, Stephen J.; Rodrigues, Miguel T.; Donnellan, Stephen; Matsui, Masafumi; Raxworthy, Cristopher J.; Biju, S.D.; Lemmon, Emily Moriarty; Lemmon, Alan R.; Wheeler, Ward C. (2016). "The impact of anchored phylogenomics and taxon sampling on phylogenetic inference in narrow-mouthed frogs (Anura, Microhylidae)". Cladistics. 32 (2): 113–140. doi:10.1111/cla.12118. PMID 34732021. S2CID 84925667.
- ^ "Microhylidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
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