Nanohyla Explained

Nanohyla is a genus of frogs in the family Microhylidae. Members of the genus are known as pygmy narrow-mouthed frogs. The members of the genus are found throughout Southeast Asia in the countries of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Taxonomy

All the members of Nanohyla were formerly placed in Microhyla; however, a 2021 study used morphological and phylogenetic evidence to show that Nanohyla forms a separate lineage from Microhyla and Glyphoglossus.^[1]

Species

There are currently nine species placed in Nanohyla:

• Nanohyla annamensis (Annam chorus frog)
• Nanohyla annectens (Larut Hills rice frog)
• Nanohyla arboricola
• Nanohyla hongiaoensis ^[2]
• Nanohyla marmorata
• Nanohyla nanapollexa
• Nanohyla perparva
• Nanohyla petrigena
• Nanohyla pulchella

Notes and References

1. Gorin. Vladislav A.. Scherz. Mark D.. Korost. Dmitriy V.. Poyarkov. Nikolay A.. 2021-12-01. Consequences of parallel miniaturisation in Microhylinae (Anura, Microhylidae), with the description of a new genus of diminutive South East Asian frogs. Zoosystematics and Evolution. en. 97 . 1 . 21–54 . 10.3897/zse.97.57968 . free.
2. Hoang van, Chung & Anh, Luong & Nguyen, Truong & Orlov, Nikolai & Chen, Youhua & Wang, Bin & Jian-Ping, Jiang. (2020). A new species of Microhyla (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from Langbian Plateau, Central Vietnam. Asian Herpetological Research. 11. 161–182. .