Cranopsis

The Latin word Cranopsis has been used to name animal genera of frogs, mollusks and crustaceans. Cranopsis (Cope 1875), was used for an anuran, and is a junior homonym of Cranopsis (Adams 1860), for a mollusk; and Cranopsis (Dall 1871), for a branchiopod. Cranopsis currently describes a mollusk in the family Fissurellidae

The name was very briefly resurrected for a subgroup of toads (Bufo) by Frost et al. (2006a). However, Frost et al. (2006b) noted that this was a mistake, because Cranopsis was preoccupied, and they proposed Ollotis (Cope, 1975) as a replacement. Unfortunately, Ollotis is a subjective junior synonym of Incilius (Cope, 1863).

See also

Data related to Cranopsis at Wikispecies

• Bufo

References

• Frost, Darrel; et al. (2006a). "The Amphibian Tree of Life". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 364. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2.
• Frost, Darrel; Grant, Taran; Mendelson, Iii, Joseph R.; et al. (2006b). "Ollotis Cope, 1875 is the oldest name for the genus currently referred to as Cranopsis Cope, 1875 (Anura: Hyloides: Bufonidae).". Copeia 2006 (3): 558. doi:10.1643/0045-8511(2006)2006[558:OCITON]2.0.CO;2.
• Pauly, G. B., D. M. Hillis, and D. C. Cannatella. (2004) The history of a Nearctic colonization: Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Nearctic toads (Bufo). Evolution 58: 2517–2535.