Brachytarsophrys

Familia: Megophryidae
Subfamilia: Megophryinae
Genus:
Species (10): B. carinense – B. chuannanensis – B. feae – B. guilinensis – B. intermedia – B. orientalis – B. platyparietus – B. popei – B. qiannanensis – B. wenshanensis

Brachytarsophrys Tian & Hu, 1983: 42

• Type species: Leptobrachium carinensis Boulenger, 1899, by original designation.

• Tian, W.-S. & Hu, S.-Q. 1983. Taxonomic study on genus Megophrys, with descriptions of two new genera. Acta Herpetologica Sinica 2(2): 41–48. BHL

• Dubois, A. 1987. Miscellanea taxonomica batrachologica (I). Alytes 5: 7–95.
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• Rao, D.-Q. & Yang, D.-T. 1997. The variation in karyotypes of Brachytarsophrys from China with a discussion of the classification of the genus. Asian Herpetological Research 7: 103–107. BHL Reference page. 
• Xie, F. & Wang, Z.-W. 2000. [Review of the systematics of pelobatids]. Cultum Herpetologica Sinica 8: 356–370. Reference page. 
• Jiang, J.-P., Yuan, F.-R., Xie, F. & Zheng, Z.-H. 2003. Phylogenetic relationships of some species and genera in megophryids inferred from partial sequences of mitochondrial 12S and 16S rRNA genes. Zoological Research 24(4): 241–248. Reference page. 
• Zhao, J., Yang, J., Chen, G.-L., Chen, C.-Q. & Wang, Y.-Y. 2014. Description of a new species of the genus Brachytarsophrys Tian and Hu, 1983 (Amphibia: Anura: Megophryidae) from southern China based on molecular and morphological data. Asian Herpetological Research 5(3): 150–160. DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1245.2014.00150 Reference page. 
• Chen, J.-M., Zhou, W.-W., Poyarkov, Jr., N.A., Stuart, B.L., Brown, R.M., Lathrop, A., Wang, Y.-Y., Yuan, Z.-Y., Jiang, K., Hou, M., Chen, H.-M., Suwannapoom, C., Nguyen, S.N., Duong, T.V., Papenfuss, T.J., Murphy, R.W., Zhang, Y.-P. & Che, J. 2017. A novel multilocus phylogenetic estimation reveals unrecognized diversity in Asian horned toads, genus Megophrys sensu lato (Anura: Megophryidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 106: 28–43. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.09.004 Reference page. 
• Mahony, S., Foley, N.M., Biju, S.D. & Teeling, E.C. 2017. Evolutionary history of the Asian Horned Frogs (Megophryinae): integrative approaches to timetree dating in the absence of a fossil record. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34(3): 744–771. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msw267 Reference page. 
• Li, Y., Zhang, D.-D., Lyu, Z.T., Wang, J., Li, Y.-L., Liu, Z.-Y., Chen, H.-H., Rao, D.-Q., Jin, Z.-F., Zhang, C.-Y. & Wang, Y.-Y. 2020. Review of the genus Brachytarsophrys (Anura: Megophryidae), with revalidation of Brachytarsophrys platyparietus and description of a new species from China. Zoological Research 41(2): 105–122. DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2020.033 Reference page. 
• Lyu, Z.-T., Zeng, Z.-C., Wang, J., Liu, Z.-Y., Huang, Y.-Q., Li, W.-Z. & Wang, Y.-Y. 2021. Four new species of Panophrys (Anura, Megophryidae) from eastern China, with discussion on the recognition of Panophrys as a distinct genus. Zootaxa 4927(1): 9–40. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4927.1.2 Reference page. 
• Li, S.-Z., Liu, J., Yang, G.-P., Wei, G. & Su, H.-J. 2022. A new toad species of the genus Brachytarsophrys Tian & Hu, 1983 (Anura, Megophryidae) from Guizhou Province, China. Biodiversity Data Journal 10: e79984. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.10.e79984 Reference page. 
• Lyu, Z.-T., Qi, S., Wang, J., Zhang, S.-Y., Zhao, J., Zeng, Z.-C., Wan, H., Yang, J.-H., Mo, Y.-M. & Wang, Y.-Y. 2023. Generic classification of Asian horned toads (Anura: Megophryidae: Megophryinae) and monograph of Chinese species. Zoological Research 44(2): 380–450. DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2022.372 Reference page. 
• He, Y.-H., Ai, R.-D., Huang, J.-K., Li, X.-Q., Liu, X.-L., Lan, J.-L., Chen, J.-M. & Yuan, Z.-Y. 2024. Morphological and molecular data revealed one new species of the Short-legged Toads Brachytarsophrys Tian and Hu, 1983 (Anura, Megophryidae) from Yunnan, China. Asian Herpetological Research 15(1): 22–30. DOI: 10.3724/ahr.2095-0357.2023.0042 Reference page. 
• Wu, X.-J., Pan, Y.-Q., Xiao, W., Chen, J., Yu, G.-H. & Wei, X.-K. 2025. Integrative taxonomic evidence for a new species of the short-legged toads Brachytarsophrys (Anura, Megophryidae) from Guangxi, China. Zoosystematics and Evolution 101(4): 1369–1382. DOI: 10.3897/zse.101.157834 Reference page. 

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