Platymantis, GUNTHER, 1858

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 : 144

SUBGENUS PLATYMANTIS GÜNTHER, 1858

Diagnosis

The subgenus Platymantis (currently a single recognized species, Pl. corrugatus ) differs from other species of Platymantis by having (1) elongate longitudinal dermal ridges along the dorsal body surfaces (vs. dorsum smooth or tuberculate); (2) distinctive ‘quaaack’ advertisement calls (vs. frequency sweeps, pure tones, or complex calls); and (3) distinctive dark lateral head coloration (of varying shades; vs. lateral head pigment undifferentiated from surrounding coloration). The diagnostic dark lateral head coloration forms a dark ‘facemask’ that we consider a synapomorphy of this clade. Additionally, members of this subgenus can be diagnosed from species of arboreal variable Philippine forest frogs of the genera Lahatnanguri ( Platymantis banahao , Pl. cornutus , and Pl. insulatus ), and all members of the subgenera Tahananpuno and Tirahanulap , by the absence of expanded digital tips of fingers and toes (vs. presence of some degree of terminal digital expansion of fingers and toes), and by having a terrestrial microhabitat preference (normally calling beneath leaf litter) and a crepuscular (vs. nocturnal) calling activity pattern ( Table 3).

Content

The allopatric populations of (1) the Luzon and West Visayan faunal regions, (2) the Camiguin Norte lineage, (3) the populations from the Mindanao faunal region islands, and (4) the Mindoro Island populations, all currently referred to Pl. corrugatus ( Table 3). The subgenus Platymantis is equivalent in content to the unranked taxon Tagomukhus.

Conversion of the name Platymantis would result in two different clades, ranked as genus and subgenus, with the same name, Platymantis . Therefore we define a NCN, denoting the same clade as subgenus Platymantis .