Niceforonia is a genus of frogs in the family Strabomantidae found in northern South America (from central Peru to Ecuador and Colombia). It is the only genus in the subfamily Hypodactylinae. The name refers to Nicéforo María, Colombian herpetologist.
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Niceforonia is a genus of frogs in the family Strabomantidae found in northern South America (from central Peru to Ecuador and Colombia). It is the only genus in the subfamily Hypodactylinae. The name refers to Nicéforo María, Colombian herpetologist.
==Taxonomy== The genus Niceforonia was resurrected from the synonymy of Phrynopus by Hedges and colleagues in 2008. No genetic data exist, and Hedges et al. placed it provisionally in the subfamily Strabomantinae along with the genera Phrynopus, Oreobates, and Lynchius with which it shares a synapomorphy. Based on genetic data from these three genera, Padial and colleagues moved them all into the subfamily Holoadeninae in 2014.
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