Xenophrys

Xenophrys
Xenophrys aceras
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Megophryidae
Genus:	Xenophrys Günther, 1864

Xenophrys is a genus of amphibians in the Megophryidae family. They are found in southeastern Asia (including China and northeastern India) to Borneo The genus has been found to be strongly polyphyletic, and awaiting a better solution, they have been included family Megophrys.^[1] For the moment being, they are listed under their old genus in Wikipedia.

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 "Endangered" (Xenophrys brachykolos), two others are "Vulnerable" (Xenophrys gigantica and Xenophrys nankiangensis), and six are "Near Threatened".^[2]

Species

Before moving them to Megophrys, the following 44 species were included in Xenophrys:^[3]

• Xenophrys aceras (Boulenger, 1903) — Perak horned toad
• Xenophrys auralensis (Ohler, Swan, and Daltry, 2002) — Aural horned toad
• Xenophrys baluensis (Boulenger, 1899) — Kinabalu horned toad
• Xenophrys baolongensis (Ye, Fei, and Xie, 2007)
• Xenophrys binchuanensis (Ye and Fei, 1995) — Binchuan horned toad
• Xenophrys binlingensis (Jiang, Fei, and Ye, 2009)
• Xenophrys boettgeri (Boulenger, 1899) — Boettger's horned toad
• Xenophrys brachykolos (Inger and Romer, 1961) — Short-legged horned toad
• Xenophrys caudoprocta (Shen, 1994) — Convex-tailed horned toad
• Xenophrys damrei (Mahony, 2011)
• Xenophrys daweimontis (Rao and Yang, 1997) — Mount Dawei horned toad
• Xenophrys dringi (Inger, Stuebing, and Tan, 1995) — Dring's horned toad or Dring's horned frog
• Xenophrys gigantica (Liu, Hu, and Yang, 1960) — Great piebald horned toad
• Xenophrys glandulosa (Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990) — Glandular horned toad
• Xenophrys huangshanensis (Fei and Ye, 2005)
• Xenophrys jingdongensis Fei and Ye, 1983 — Jingdong horned toad
• Xenophrys jinggangensis Wang, 2012
• Xenophrys kuatunensis (Pope, 1929) — Kuatun horned toad
• Xenophrys lekaguli (Stuart, Chuaynkern, Chan-ard, and Inger, 2006)
• Xenophrys longipes (Boulenger, 1886) — Red-legged horned toad
• Xenophrys major (Boulenger, 1908) — Great Stream horned toad
• Xenophrys mangshanensis Fei and Ye, 1990 — Mangshan horned toad
• Xenophrys medogensis (Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1983) — Medog horned toad
• Xenophrys megacephala (Mahony, Sengupta, Kamei, and Biju, 2011)
• Xenophrys minor Stejneger, 1926 — Dwarf horned toad
• Xenophrys nankiangensis (Liu and Hu, 1966) — Nankiang horned toad
• Xenophrys omeimontis (Liu, 1950) — Omei horned toad
• Xenophrys pachyproctus (Huang, 1981) — Convex-vented horned toad
• Xenophrys palpebralespinosa (Bourret, 1937) — Rough-skinned horned toad
• Xenophrys parallela (Inger and Iskandar, 2005)
• Xenophrys parva (Boulenger, 1893) — Lesser stream horned toad
• Xenophrys robusta (Boulenger, 1908) — Robust horned toad
• Xenophrys sangzhiensis (Jiang, Ye, and Fei, 2008)
• Xenophrys serchhipii Mathew and Sen, 2007 — Serchhip horned toad
• Xenophrys shapingensis (Liu, 1950) — Shaping horned toad
• Xenophrys shuichengensis (Tian, Gu, and Sun, 2000) — Shuicheng horned toad
• Xenophrys spinata (Liu and Hu, 1973) — Spiny-fingered horned toad
• Xenophrys takensis (Mahony, 2011)
• Xenophrys tuberogranulatus (Shen, Mo and Li, 2010)
• Xenophrys wawuensis (Fei, Jiang, and Zheng, 2001) — Wawu horned toad
• Xenophrys wuliangshanensis (Ye and Fei, 1995) — Wuliangshan horned toad
• Xenophrys wushanensis (Ye and Fei, 1995) — Wushan horned toad
• Xenophrys zhangi (Ye and Fei, 1992) — Zhang's horned toad
• Xenophrys zunhebotoensis Mathew and Sen, 2007 — Zunheboto horned toad

References

1. Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Megophryidae Bonaparte, 1850". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
2. 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.
3. 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.