Uperoleia Gray, 1841

Catullo, Renee A., Doughty, Paul, Roberts, Dale & Keogh, Scott, 2011, Multi-locus phylogeny and taxonomic revision of Uperoleia toadlets (Anura: Myobatrachidae) from the western arid zone of Australia, with a description of a new species, Zootaxa 2902, pp. 1-43 : 15

Uperoleia Gray, 1841

Uperoleia Gray, 1841 , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 1, 7: 90.

Hyperoleia Agassiz, 1846, Nomencl. Zool., Fasc. 12: 384. Unjustified emendation.

Glauertia Loveridge, 1933 , Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8: 89. Type species: Glauertia russelli Loveridge, 1933 , by monotypy. Synonymy by Tyler et. al. 1981, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 29 (79): 9.

Hosmeria Wells and Wellington, 1985 , Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 2. Type species: Uperoleia marmorata laevigata Keferstein, 1867 , by original designation.

Prohartia Wells and Wellington, 1985 , Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3. Type species: Pseudophryne fimbrianus Parker, 1926 , by original designation.

Type species: U. marmorata , by monotypy.

Diagnosis. A group of small-bodied (to 41 mm) terrestrial frogs with short limbs, no webbing on fingers, first finger shorter than second, inner metatarsal tubercle not compressed, lacking vomerine teeth, covered tympana, pupil rhomboidal, parotoid, dorsolateral/inguinal and coccygeal glands usually present, males with unilobular submandibular vocal sac and unpigmented nuptial pads, aquatic reproduction with small pigmented eggs and free-swimming larvae ( Tyler et al. 1981). Cloacal flap present, moderately fimbriated in males and strongly fimbriated in females.

Other genera in synonymy. Uperoleia are morphologically conservative and monophyly is not in question based on morphological ( Tyler et al., 1981) or molecular data ( Read et al., 2001; Frost et al., 2006, this study). Parker (1940) indicated Hyperoleia was an unjustified emendation of Uperoleia . There are no compelling reasons to recognize further genera within this clade. Therefore we maintain the synonymy of Glauertia by Tyler et. al. (1981) and tranfer Hosmeria and Prohartia to the synonymy of Uperoleia .