Xenophrys
Genus of amphibians
Xenophrys amphibians in the family Megophryidae . They are found in southeastern Asia (including China and northeastern India) to Borneo . Their common name is strange-horned toads .[ 1]
Tadpole of Xenophrys brachykolos
Conservation
Of the 36 Xenophrys species that the International Union for Conservation of Nature has evaluated, most are either "Data Deficient " or of "Least Concern ". However, one species is considered "Critically Endangered " (Xenophrys damrei Endangered " (Xenophrys takensis Vulnerable " (Xenophrys auralensis Near Threatened ".[ 2]
Taxonomy
The genus was previously found to be strongly polyphyletic , and awaiting a better solution, they were synonymized in the genus Megophrys [ 1] [ 3]
Species
Presently, Amphibian Species of the World Xenophrys :[ 1]
Xenophrys aceras (Boulenger, 1903) — Perak horned toadXenophrys ancrae (Mahony, Teeling & Biju, 2013) — Namdapha horned toadfrogXenophrys apatani Saikia et al., 2024 [ 4] Xenophrys auralensis (Ohler, Swan, and Daltry, 2002) — Aural horned toadXenophrys awuh (Mahony, Kamei, Teeling, and Biju, 2020) — Naga Hills horned frogXenophrys damrei (Mahony, 2011) — Damrei horned toadXenophrys dzukou (Mahony, Kamei, Teeling, and Biju, 2020) — Dzükou Valley horned frogXenophrys flavipunctata Mahony, Kamei, Teeling, and Biju, 2018) — yellow spotted white-lipped horned frogXenophrys glandulosa (Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990) — glandular horned toadXenophrys himalayana (Mahony, Kamei, Teeling, and Biju, 2018) — Himalayan horned frogXenophrys lekaguli (Stuart, Chuaynkern, Chan-ard, and Inger, 2006) — Lekagul's horned toadXenophrys longipes (Boulenger, 1886) — red-legged horned toadXenophrys major (Boulenger, 1908) — Great Stream horned toadXenophrys mangshanensis Fei and Ye, 1990) — Mangshan horned toadXenophrys maosonensis (Bourret, 1937) — Maoson horned toadXenophrys medogensis (Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1983) — Medog horned toadXenophrys megacephala (Mahony, Sengupta, Kamei, and Biju, 2011) — big-headed horned frogXenophrys monticola Günther , 1864Xenophrys numhbumaeng (Mahony, Kamei, Teeling, and Biju, 2020) — Tamenglong horned frogXenophrys oreocrypta Mahony, Kamei, Teeling, and Biju, 2018) — Garo white-lipped horned frogXenophrys oropedion Mahony, Teeling & Biju, 2013) — Shyllong horned toadXenophrys pachyproctus (Huang, 1981) — convex-vented horned toadXenophrys periosa Mahony, Kamei, Teeling, and Biju, 2018) — giant Himalayan horned frogXenophrys robusta (Boulenger, 1908) — robust horned toadXenophrys serchhipii Mathew and Sen, 2007 — Serchhip horned toadXenophrys takensis (Mahony, 2011) — Tak horned toadXenophrys truongsonensis Luong, Hoang, Pham, Nguyen, Orlov, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2022 — Truongson horned toadXenophrys vegrandis Mahony, Teeling, Biju, 2013) Xenophrys yeae (Shi, Zhang, Xie, Jiang, Liu, Ding, Luan, and Wang, 2020) — Ye's horned toadXenophrys zhangi (Ye and Fei, 1992) — Zhang's horned toadXenophrys zhoui (Shi, Zhang, Xie, Jiang, Liu, Ding, Luan, and Wang, 2020) — Zhou's horned toadXenophrys zunhebotoensis Mathew and Sen, 2007 — Zunheboto horned toad
References
^ a b c Frost, Darrel R. (2013). "Xenophrys Günther, 1864" . Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference . American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 26 July 2013 . ^ IUCN (2014). "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>" . Archived from the original on June 27, 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2014 . ^ Chen, Jin-Min; Zhou, Wei-Wei; Poyarkov, Nikolay A.; Stuart, Bryan L.; Brown, Rafe M.; Lathrop, Amy; Wang, Ying-Yong; Yuan, Zhi-Yong; Jiang, Ke; Hou, Mian; Chen, Hong-Man; Suwannapoom, Chatmongkon; Nguyen, Sang Ngoc; Duong, Tang Van; Papenfuss, Theodore J. (2017-01-01). "A novel multilocus phylogenetic estimation reveals unrecognized diversity in Asian horned toads, genus Megophrys sensu lato (Anura: Megophryidae)" . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 106 : 28– 43. doi :10.1016/j.ympev.2016.09.004 ISSN 1055-7903 . PMID 27622725 . ^ Bhaskar Saikia, Bikramjit Sinha, A. Shabnam, et al. 2024. On A New Species of Xenophrys (Anura: Megophryidae) from Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India with Comments on the earlier erroneous report as X. maosonensis (Bourret, 1937). Records of the Zoological Survey of India. 124 (Special issue of ATS 2024); 21-40.
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