Biology:Pelodryadidae
| Pelodryadidae | |
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| Orange-thighed frog | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Superfamily: | Hyloidea |
| Family: | Pelodryadidae Günther, 1858 |
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Pelodryadidae, also known as Australian treefrogs (although not all members are arboreal) are a family of frogs found in the region of Australia and New Guinea, and have also been introduced to New Caledonia, Guam, New Zealand, and Vanuatu. Some authorities group them within the Hylidae as family Pelodryadinae.[1]
The family is thought to be the sister group to the leaf frogs (Phyllomedusidae), a family of arboreal frogs known from the Neotropics. The common ancestor of both families is thought to have lived in early Cenozoic South America, with the two families diverging from one another during the Eocene. The ancestors of the Pelodryadidae likely invaded Australasia via Antarctica, which at the time was not yet frozen over, thus was hospitable for the dispersing frogs.[2] The clade comprising both families is sister to the Hylidae, from which they diverged in the early Paleogene.[3]
Taxonomy
The family contains 215 species in three genera:[4]
- Subfamily Litoriinae
- Litoria (93 species)
- Subfamily Pelodryadinae
- Nyctimystes (42 species)
- Ranoidea (73 species)
- Incertae sedis
- "Litoria" castanea (Steindachner, 1867)
- "Litoria" jeudii (Werner, 1901)
- "Litoria" louisiadensis (Tyler, 1968)
- "Litoria" multicolor Günther, 2004
- "Litoria" obtusirostris Meyer, 1875
- "Litoria" richardsi Dennis and Cunningham, 2006
- "Litoria" vagabunda (Peters and Doria, 1878)
References
- ↑ "Pelodryadidae Günther, 1858 | Amphibian Species of the World". https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Pelodryadidae.
- ↑ Duellman, William E.; Marion, Angela B.; Hedges, S. Blair (2016-04-19). "Phylogenetics, classification, and biogeography of the treefrogs (Amphibia: Anura: Arboranae)" (in en). Zootaxa 4104 (1): 1–109. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4104.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4104.1.1.
- ↑ 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): E5864–E5870. doi:10.1073/pnas.1704632114. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 28673970. https://www.pnas.org/content/114/29/E5864.
- ↑ "Pelodryadinae Günther, 1858 | Amphibian Species of the World". http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/index.php//Amphibia/Anura/Pelodryadidae/Pelodryadinae.
Wikidata ☰ Q25377032 entry
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