''Xenophrys'' is a genus of

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s in the family

Megophryidae Megophryidae, commonly known as goose frogs, is a large family of frogs native to the warm southeast of Asia, from the Himalayan foothills eastwards, south to Indonesia and the Greater Sunda Islands in Maritime Southeast Asia, and extending to t ...

. They are found in southeastern

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(including China and northeastern India) to

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. Their common name is strange-horned toads.

Conservation

Of the 36 ''Xenophrys'' species that the

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has evaluated, most are either "

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" or of "

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". However, one species is considered "

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" ('' Xenophrys damrei'') "

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" ('' Xenophrys takensis''), one is " Vulnerable" ('' Xenophrys auralensis''), and six are "

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Taxonomy

The genus was previously found to be strongly

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, and awaiting a better solution, they were synonymized in the genus ''

Megophrys ''Megophrys'' is a genus of frogs in the family Megophryidae. They are endemic to Indonesia, where they are found on the islands of Java and Sumatra. They commonly have elongated upper "eyebrows" and are thus known as Indonesian horned toads. Th ...

''. Following subsequent studies and reclassification, the genus has been revalidated.

Species

Presently, '' Amphibian Species of the World'' classifies the following 31 species in ''Xenophrys'': * '' Xenophrys aceras'' (Boulenger, 1903) — Perak horned toad * '' Xenophrys ancrae'' (Mahony, Teeling & Biju, 2013) — Namdapha horned toadfrog * '' Xenophrys apatani'' Saikia et al., 2024Bhaskar 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. * '' Xenophrys auralensis'' (Ohler, Swan, and Daltry, 2002) — Aural horned toad * '' Xenophrys awuh'' (Mahony, Kamei, Teeling, and Biju, 2020) — Naga Hills horned frog * '' Xenophrys damrei'' (Mahony, 2011) — Damrei horned toad * '' Xenophrys dzukou'' (Mahony, Kamei, Teeling, and Biju, 2020) — Dzükou Valley horned frog * '' Xenophrys flavipunctata'' (Mahony, Kamei, Teeling, and Biju, 2018) — yellow spotted white-lipped horned frog * ''

Xenophrys glandulosa ''Xenophrys glandulosa'', the glandular horned toad or Jingdong spadefoot toad is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae found in Yunnan in China, in Nagaland in northeastern India, and in northern Kachin State, Myanmar. It has recentl ...

'' (Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990) — glandular horned toad * '' Xenophrys himalayana'' (Mahony, Kamei, Teeling, and Biju, 2018) — Himalayan horned frog * '' Xenophrys lekaguli'' (Stuart, Chuaynkern, Chan-ard, and Inger, 2006) — Lekagul's horned toad * '' 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 maosonensis'' (Bourret, 1937) — Maoson horned toad * '' Xenophrys medogensis'' (Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1983) — Medog horned toad * '' Xenophrys megacephala'' (Mahony, Sengupta, Kamei, and Biju, 2011) — big-headed horned frog * '' Xenophrys monticola'' Günther, 1864 — mountain horned frog * '' Xenophrys numhbumaeng'' (Mahony, Kamei, Teeling, and Biju, 2020) — Tamenglong horned frog * '' Xenophrys oreocrypta'' (Mahony, Kamei, Teeling, and Biju, 2018) — Garo white-lipped horned frog * '' Xenophrys oropedion'' (Mahony, Teeling & Biju, 2013) — Shyllong horned toad * '' Xenophrys pachyproctus'' (Huang, 1981) — convex-vented horned toad * '' Xenophrys periosa'' (Mahony, Kamei, Teeling, and Biju, 2018) — giant Himalayan horned frog * '' Xenophrys robusta'' (Boulenger, 1908) — robust horned toad * '' Xenophrys serchhipii'' Mathew and Sen, 2007 — Serchhip horned toad * '' Xenophrys takensis'' (Mahony, 2011) — Tak horned toad * '' Xenophrys truongsonensis'' Luong, Hoang, Pham, Nguyen, Orlov, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2022 — Truongson horned toad * '' Xenophrys vegrandis'' (Mahony, Teeling, Biju, 2013) * '' Xenophrys yeae'' (Shi, Zhang, Xie, Jiang, Liu, Ding, Luan, and Wang, 2020) — Ye's horned toad * '' Xenophrys zhangi'' (Ye and Fei, 1992) — Zhang's horned toad * '' Xenophrys zhoui'' (Shi, Zhang, Xie, Jiang, Liu, Ding, Luan, and Wang, 2020) — Zhou's horned toad * '' Xenophrys zunhebotoensis'' Mathew and Sen, 2007 — Zunheboto horned toad

References

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