Biology:Myobatrachoidea
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| Limnodynastes interioris | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Clade: | Australobatrachia |
| Superfamily: | Myobatrachoidea Schlegel, 1850 |
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Myobatrachoidea is a superfamily of frogs. It contains two families, both of which are found in Australia , New Guinea, and the Aru Islands. Some sources group these two families into a single family Myobatrachidae.[1]
Their closest relatives are thought to be the Calyptocephalellidae of southern South America, from which they diverged during the mid-Cretaceous (about 100 million years ago). Together, they comprise the clade Australobatrachia; their common ancestor is thought to have inhabited South America, with the ancestors of Myobatrachoidea dispersing to Australasia during the Cretaceous via (then ice-free) Antarctica.[2] Both families within Myobatrachoidea are thought to have diverged from each other during the Late Cretaceous or during the earliest Paleocene (immediately after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event).[3]
Taxonomy
Myobatrachoidea contains the following families:[1]
- Limnodynastidae Lynch, 1969 - 44 species
- Myobatrachidae Schlegel, 1850 - 91 species
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Myobatrachoidea Schlegel, 1850 | Amphibian Species of the World". https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Myobatrachoidea.
- ↑ Mörs, Thomas; Reguero, Marcelo; Vasilyan, Davit (2020-04-23). "First fossil frog from Antarctica: implications for Eocene high latitude climate conditions and Gondwanan cosmopolitanism of Australobatrachia" (in en). Scientific Reports 10 (1): 5051. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-61973-5. ISSN 2045-2322. PMID 32327670. PMC 7181706. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61973-5.
- ↑ Feng, Yan-Jie; Blackburn, David C.; Liang, Dan; Hillis, David M.; Wake, David B.; Cannatella, David C.; Zhang, Peng (2017-07-18). "Phylogenomics reveals rapid, simultaneous diversification of three major clades of Gondwanan frogs at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary" (in en). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (29). doi:10.1073/pnas.1704632114. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 28673970.
Wikidata ☰ Q99507406 entry
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