The genus Scaphiophryne (Anura: Microhylidae) incorporates at the least 9 species that, collectively with their possible sister genus Paradoxophyla, kind the Madagascar-endemic subfamily Scaphiophryninae. Scaphiophryne are sturdy burrowing frogs with explosive breeding habits and are characterised by a distinctive larval morphology, being intermediate between that of filter-feeding and generalized tadpole…