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]
Taxonomy
Copiula 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
There are at present 14 species in this genus:[1]
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Copiula alpestris (Zweifel, 2000)
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Copiula annanoreenae Günther, Richards, and Dahl, 2014
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Copiula derongo (Zweifel, 2000)
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Copiula exspectata Günther, 2002
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Copiula fistulans Menzies and Tyler, 1977 — Lae Mehely Frog
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Copiula guttata (Zweifel, 2000)
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Copiula lennarti Günther, Richards, and Dahl, 2014
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Copiula major Günther, 2002
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Copiula minor Menzies and Tyler, 1977 — Milne Bay Mehely Frog
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Copiula obsti Günther, 2002
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Copiula oxyrhina (Boulenger, 1898) — Misima Island Mehely Frog
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Copiula pipiens Burton and Stocks, 1986 — Wirui Mehely Frog
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Copiula rivularis (Zweifel, 2000)
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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
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^ 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.
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^ 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.
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^ 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. S2CID 84925667.
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^ "Microhylidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
