''Copiula'' is a genus of microhylid

frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" '' Triadobatrachus'' is ...

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found els ...

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr ...

. The common name Mehely frogs has been coined for them. They are leaf-litter inhabitants.

Taxonomy

''Copiula'' is probably not

monophyletic In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic ...

. Some former ''

Austrochaperina ''Austrochaperina'' is a genus of microhylid frogs found on New Guinea, New Britain and Australia. Taxonomy The genus was removed from the synonymy of ''Sphenophryne'' by Richard Zweifel in 2000. However, as currently defined, it might not be ...

'' species have already been transferred to this genus, and further ones might follow when more data became available.

Species

There are at present 14 species in this genus: The AmphibiaWeb reports fewer species, with species that Peloso and colleagues moved in 2016 from ''

'' and ''

Oxydactyla ''Sphenophryne'' is a genus of frogs in the family Microhylidae from New Guinea. It reached its current composition in 2017 when Rivera and colleagues brought the genera ''Genyophryne'', ''Liophryne'', and ''Oxydactyla'' into Synonym (taxonomy), ...

'' missing.

References

Microhylidae Amphibians of Oceania Amphibians of New Guinea Amphibian genera Taxa named by Lajos Méhelÿ Endemic fauna of New Guinea {{Microhylidae-stub