| a molecular phylogenetic analysis of the family rhacophoridae with an emphasis on the asian and african genera. | using characters from mitochondrial dna to construct maximum parsimony and maximum likelihood trees, we performed a phylogenetic analysis on representative species of 14 genera: 12 that belong to the treefrog family rhacophoridae and two, amolops and rana, that are not rhacophorids. our results support a phylogenetic hypothesis that depicts a monophyletic family rhacophoridae. in this family, the malagasy genera aglyptodactylus, boophis, mantella, and mantidactylus form a well-supported sister c ... | 2002 | 12144761 |
| a new species of the genus kurixalus from yunnan, china (anura, rhacophoridae). | a new species of the genus kurixalus (anura: rhacophoridae) is described from yunnan, china based on morphological and molecular evidence. the new species, kurixalus lenquanensissp. n., is distinguished from other congeneric species by a combination of (1) smaller body size (svl in males ranges from 25.0 to 28.9 mm), (2) obtusely pointed snout with no prominence on tip, (3) rough and brown dorsum with darker mark, (4) absence of large dark spots on ventral surface, (5) brownish clouded chin, (6) ... | 2017 | 29134000 |
| geological data indicate that the interpretation for the age-calibrated phylogeny for the kurixalus-genus frogs of south, south-east and east asia (lv et al., 2018) needs to be rethought. | recently, lv et al. (2018) published an age-calibrated phylogenetic tree for the kurixalus frogs, members of which occur across parts of south, south-east and east asia. a clade on taiwan, represented by kurixalus idiootocus and the kurixalus eiffingeri species complex, is deemed to have been resident since the middle cenozoic; its closest congeners are in southern indochina (not in the adjacent parts of south-east china), and the split between the two is dated at 32.8 ma. furthermore, a sub-pop ... | 2020 | 29448062 |