Arthroleptidae

Arthroleptidae
Scotobleps gabonicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Superfamily: Ranoidea
Family: Arthroleptidae
Mivart, 1869
Genera

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Arthroleptidae /ˌɑːrθrˈlɛptd/ is a family of frogs found in sub-Saharan Africa. This group includes African Treefrogs in the genus Leptopelis along with the terrestrial breeding squeakers Arthroleptis, and several genera restricted to the Guinean forests of central and west Africa, such as the Hairy Frog (Trichobatrachus).

Taxonomy

This family is the phylogenetic sister group of Reed Frogs, Hyperoliidae, which together form the lineage Laurentobatrachia,[1] a name that commemorates work on African frogs by the Argentine herpetologist Raymond Laurent. This group is further nested within Afrobatrachia, an ancient African endemic lineage that includes Brevicipitidae and Hemisotidae.[1] The Arthroleptidae are separated, based on phylogenetic analyses, into three deeply divergent and dissimilar subfamilies: Arthroleptinae, Astylosterninae, and Leptopelinae.[2][3] Some consider these to be separate families,[4] while others do not recognize any subfamilies, in particular due to uncertainty in the phylogenetic placement of Leptopelis and Scotobleps.[5][6]

The three subfamilies consist of these genera:[3]

SubfamiliaSpeciesCommon nameScientific name
Arthroleptinae
Mivart, 1869
47 Screeching frogs Arthroleptis Smith, 1849
16 Long-fingered frogs Cardioglossa Boulenger, 1900
Astylosterninae
Noble, 1927
12 Night frogs Astylosternus Werner, 1898
15 Egg frogs Leptodactylodon Andersson, 1903
1 Southern night frog Nyctibates Boulenger, 1904
1 Gaboon forest frog Scotobleps Boulenger, 1900
1 Hairy frog Trichobatrachus Boulenger, 1900
Leptopelinae
Laurent, 1972
52 Forest treefrogs Leptopelis Günther, 1859

References

  1. 1 2 Frost, Darrel R; Grant, Tarrant; Faivovich, Julian; Bain, Raoul H; Haas, Alexander; Haddad, Celio FB; De Sa, Rafael; Channing, Alan; Wilkinson, Mark; Donnellan, Stephen C; Raxworthy, Christopher J; Campbell, Jonathan A; Blotto, Boris L; Moler, Paul; Drewes, Robert C; Nussbaum, Ronald A; Lynch, John D; Green, David M; Wheeler, Ward C (2006). "The Amphibian Tree of Life". Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. (297): 370pp.
  2. Pyron, RA; Wiens, JJ (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: 543–583. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.06.012. PMID 21723399.
  3. 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Arthroleptidae Mivart, 1869". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  4. Bossuyt, F; Roelants, K (2009). Hedges, SB; Kumar, S, eds. Anura. New York, USA: Oxford University Press. pp. 357–364.
  5. Blackburn, David C. "Family Arthroleptidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  6. 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.

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