Cornufer, TSCHUDI, 1838

Brown, Rafe M., Siler, Cameron D., Richards, Stephen J., Diesmos, Arvin C. & Cannatella, David C., 2015, Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for Southeast Asian and Melanesian forest frogs (family Ceratobatrachidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 174 (1), pp. 130-168 : 148-149

SUBGENUS CORNUFER TSCHUDI, 1838

Diagnosis

Members of the subgenus Cornufer differ from other members of the genus Cornufer by having (1) a large male body size (65–150+ mm SVL, vs. male body size usually ∼ 25–40 mm); (2) terminal discs of fingers and toes non- to minimally expanded in Co. vitianus (vs. widely expanded in some arboreal riddle frogs of subgenus Aenigmanura , palm frogs of subgenus Palmatorappia , giant water frogs of subgenus Discodeles , and a few sticky-toed frogs of subgenus Batrachylodes ), or widely expanded in Co. vitiensis (vs. non- to minimally expanded in some terrestrial riddle frogs of subgenus Aenigmanura , horned frogs of subgenus Ceratobatrachus , river frogs of subgenus Potamorana , and a few sticky-toed frogs of subgenus Batrachylodes ). Additionally, both species are restricted to the islands of Fiji, where they are the only native ranoid frogs; they do not possess overlapping distributions with any other known ceratobatrachids. We are unaware of any morphological synapomorphies for this group, although our molecular data clearly provides strong support for Fijian frogs as a monophyletic group.

Conversion of the name Cornufer (referring to the subgenus) to a phylogenetic name would result in two different clades bearing the name Cornufer . Therefore, we define a new clade name denoting the same clade ( Fig. 2, Clade E) as the subgenus Cornufer .

Content

Cornufer vitiensis , Co. vitianus , and (provisionally) the extinct taxon Cornufer megabotoniviti ( Worthy, 2001; Table 3). The subgenus Cornufer is equivalent in content to the unranked taxon Yanuboto.