Leiuperinae
| Leiuperinae | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Pleurodema brachyops | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Leptodactylidae |
| Subfamily: | Leiuperinae Bonaparte, 1850 |
| Type genus | |
| Leiuperus Duméril and Bibron, 1841 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Leiuperina Bonaparte, 1850 | |
Leiuperinae is a subfamily of frogs in the Leptodactylidae family. There are 90 species in five genera. The distribution of this subfamily is from southern Mexico to the Central America and much of the South America.[1]
Taxonomy
Recognition of Leiuperinae as it is known today is relatively recent. Frost et al. (2006) treated Leiuperina as a part of Leptodactylidae,[2] whereas Grant et al. (2006) recognized it as a family,[3] the view adopted by some sources.[4][5] However, the Amphibian Species of the World follows Pyron and Wiens (2011)[6] in recognizing this taxon as a subfamily.[1] On the other hand, AmphibiaWeb includes leiuperinid genera in Leptodactylidae, without recognizing them as a subfamily.[7]
Genera
There are five genera:[1]
- Edalorhina Jiménez de la Espada, 1870
- Engystomops Jiménez de la Espada, 1872
- Physalaemus Fitzinger, 1826
- Pleurodema Tschudi, 1838
- Pseudopaludicola Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926
References
- 1 2 3 Frost, Darrel R. (2015). "Leiuperinae Bonaparte, 1850". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
- ↑ Frost, D. R.; Grant, T.; Faivovich, J. N.; Bain, R. H.; Haas, A.; Haddad, C. L. F. B.; De Sá, R. O.; Channing, A.; Wilkinson, M.; Donnellan, S. C.; Raxworthy, C. J.; Campbell, J. A.; Blotto, B. L.; Moler, P.; Drewes, R. C.; Nussbaum, R. A.; Lynch, J. D.; Green, D. M.; Wheeler, W. C. (2006). "The Amphibian Tree of Life". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–291. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/5781.
- ↑ Grant, T., Frost, D. R., Caldwell, J. P., Gagliardo, R., Haddad, C. F. B., Kok, P. J. R., Means, D. B., Noonan, B. P., Schargel, W. E., and Wheeler, W. C. (2006). "Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 299: 1–262. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)299[1:PSODFA]2.0.CO;2.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Leipueridae". Animal Diversity. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Leptodactylidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2015.