Alsodidae
| Alsodidae | |
|---|---|
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| Alsodes verrucosus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Alsodidae Mivart, 1869 |
| Type genus | |
| Alsodes Bell, 1843 | |
| Genera | |
|
3, see text. | |
| Synonyms | |
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Alsodinae Mivart, 1869 | |
Alsodidae is a small family of frogs from South America between Patagonia and southern Brazil. It contains 30 species in three genera.[1][2] This family, along with several other families, used to be included in the Leptodactylidae family.[3] It was then a subfamily in the Cycloramphidae family, before being recognized as a family first in 2011.[4]
Genera
The family contains three genera:[1][2]
- Alsodes Bell, 1843 (19 species)
- Eupsophus Fitzinger, 1843 (10 species)
- Limnomedusa Fitzinger, 1843 (1 species)
However, the placement of Limnomedusa is highly uncertain, and it might belong to the Cycloramphidae family.[1] In contrast, Alsodes+Eupsophus group (sensu stricto, after moving some species formerly included in the latter genus to other genera) forms a well-supported, monophyletic group. These genera are Patagonian endemics and represent the largest part of the amphibian diversity in that area. Eupsophus are restricted to forested areas at southern latitudes, but some species of Alsodes reach the arid Andean slopes in central Chile and Argentina.[5]
References
- 1 2 3 Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Alsodidae Mivart, 1869". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- 1 2 "Alsodidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- ↑ Blackburn, D.C.; Wake, D.B. (2011). "Class Amphibia Gray, 1825. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa 3148: 39–55.
- ↑ Pyron, A. R.; Wiens, J. J. (2011). "A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61 (2): 543–583. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.06.012. PMID 21723399.
- ↑ Blotto, B. L.; Nuñez, J. J.; Basso, N. S. G.; Úbeda, C. A.; Wheeler, W. C.; Faivovich, J. N. (2013). "Phylogenetic relationships of a Patagonian frog radiation, the Alsodes + Eupsophus clade (Anura: Alsodidae), with comments on the supposed paraphyly of Eupsophus". Cladistics 29 (2): 113–131. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00417.x.