''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

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

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with ''Hamptophryne'' in 2012.

Species

There are two species in the genus: * '' Hamptophryne alios'' (Wild, 1995) * '' Hamptophryne boliviana'' (Parker, 1927)

References

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