''Hamptophryne'' (common name: bleating frogs) is a small genus of

microhylid The Microhylidae, commonly known as narrow-mouthed frogs, are a geographically widespread family of frogs. The 683 species are in 57 genera and 11 subfamilies. Evolution A molecular phylogenetic study by van der Meijden, et al. (2007) has estima ...

frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely semiaquatic group of short-bodied, tailless amphibian vertebrates composing the order (biology), order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek , literally 'without tail'). Frog species with rough ski ...

s from

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...

. The genus was previously

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...

, but because of the close phylogenetic relationship between ''Hamptophryne'' and ''Altigius'', another monotypic genus, the latter was placed in

synonymy A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language, the words ''begin'', ''start'', ''commence'', and ''initiate'' are a ...

with ''Hamptophryne'' in 2012.

Species

There are two species in the genus: * ''

Hamptophryne alios ''Hamptophryne'' (common name: bleating frogs) is a small genus of microhylid frogs from South America. The genus was previously monotypic, but because of the close phylogenetic relationship between ''Hamptophryne'' and ''Altigius'', another mono ...

'' (Wild, 1995) * ''

Hamptophryne boliviana ''Hamptophryne boliviana'', also known as the Bolivian bleating frog or Amazon sheep frog, is a species of frogs in the family Microhylidae. It is found in the northern and western sides of the Amazon basin in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, ...

'' (Parker, 1927)

References

Microhylidae Amphibians of South America Amphibian genera Taxa named by Antenor Leitão de Carvalho Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Microhylidae-stub