Synapturanus

Familia: Microhylidae
Subfamilia: Otophryninae
Genus:
Species (10): S. ajuricaba – S. artifex – S. danta – S. latebrosus – S. mesomorphus – S. mirandaribeiroi – S. rabus – S. sacratus – S. salseri – S. zombie

Synapturanus Carvalho, 1954: 17 [conserved name]

• Type species: Synapturanus mirandaribeiroi Nelson & Lescure, 1975, designated by Opinion 1513 (1988: 243).
• Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 1513 (1988: 243).

• Carvalho, A.L. 1954. A preliminary synopsis of the genera of American microhylid frogs. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 555: 1–19.
• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1988. Opinion 1513. Synapturanus Carvalho, 1954 (Amphibia, Anura): Synapturanus mirandribeiroi Nelson & Lescure, 1975 designated as the type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 45: 243. BHL Reference page. 

• Nelson, C.E. & Lescure, J. 1975. The taxonomy and distribution of Myersiella and Synapturanus (Anura: Microhylidae). Herpetologica 31(4): 389–397. JSTOR Reference page. 
• Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P.E., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–370. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5781 . Reference page. 
• Motta, J., Menin, M., Almeida, A.P., Hrbek, T. & Farias, I.P. 2018. When the unknown lives next door: a study of central Amazonian anurofauna. Zootaxa 4438(1): 79–104. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4438.1.3 Reference page. 
• Fouquet, A., Leblanc, K., Framit, M., Réjaud, A., Rodrigues, M.T., Castroviejo-Fisher, S., Peloso, P.L.V., Prates, I., Manzi, S., Suescun, U., Baroni, S., Moraes, L.J.C.L., Recoder, R., Souza, S.M., Dal Vechio, F., Camacho, A., Ghellere, J.M., Rojas-Runjaic, F.J.M., Gagliardi-Urrutia, G., Carvalho, V.T., Gordo, M., Menin, M., Kok, P.J.R., Hrbek, T., Werneck, F.P., Craford, A.J., Ron, S.R., Mueses-Cisneros, J.J., Rojas-Zamora, R.R., Pavan D., Simões, P.I., Ernst, R. & Fabre, A.-C. 2021. Species diversity and biogeography of an ancient frog clade from the Guiana Shield (Anura: Microhylidae: Adelastes, Otophryne, Synapturanus) exhibiting spectacular phenotypic diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 132(2): 233–256. DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa204 Reference page. 
• Fouquet, A., Leblanc, K., Fabre, A.-C., Rodrigues, M.T., Menin, M., Courtois, E.A., Dewynter, M., Hölting, M., Ernst, R., Peloso, P.L.V. & Kok, P.J.R. 2021. Comparative osteology of the fossorial frogs of the genus Synapturanus (Anura, Microhylidae) with the description of three new species from the Eastern Guiana Shield. Zoologischer Anzeiger 293: 46–73. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2021.05.003 Reference page. 
• Chávez, G., Thompson, M.E., Sánchez, D.A., Chávez-Arribasplata, J.C. & Catenazzi, A. 2022. A needle in a haystack: Integrative taxonomy reveals the existence of a new small species of fossorial frog (Anura, Microhylidae, Synapturanus) from the vast lower Putumayo basin, Peru. Evolutionary Systematics 6(1): 9–20. DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.6.80281 Reference page. 
• Osorno-Muñoz, M., Gutiérrez-Lamus, D.L., Lynch, J.D., Keefe, R., Caicedo-Portilla, J.R., Chan, K.N., Tonini, J.F.R. & Sá, R.O. 2023. Three new species of the Synapturanus rabus complex (Microhylidae: Otophryninae) in Colombia with a review of the genus Synapturanus. Zootaxa 5258(2): 151–196. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5258.2.1 Reference page.