Alsodidae

Alsodidae
Alsodes verrucosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Alsodidae
Mivart, 1869
Type genus
Alsodes
Bell, 1843
Synonyms

Alsodinae Mivart, 1869

Alsodidae is a small family of frogs from South America between Patagonia and southern Brazil. It contains 29 species in three genera.[1][2] This family, along with several other families, used to be included in the Leptodactylidae family.[3] It was then a subfamily in the Cycloramphidae family, before being recognized as a family first in 2011.[4]

The family contains three genera:[1][2]

However, the placement of Limnomedusa is highly uncertain, and it might belong to the Cycloramphidae family.[1] In contrast, Alsodes+Eupsophus group (sensu stricto, after moving some species formerly included in the latter genus to other genera) forms a well-supported, monophyletic group. These genera are Patagonian endemics and represent the largest part of the amphibian diversity in that area. Eupsophus are restricted to forested areas at southern latitudes, but some species of Alsodes reach the arid Andean slopes in central Chile and Argentina.[5]

Eupsophus roseus

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Alsodidae Mivart, 1869". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Alsodidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
  3. ↑ 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". Zootaxa 3148: 39–55.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Blotto, B. L.; Nuñez, J. J.; Basso, N. S. G.; Úbeda, C. A.; Wheeler, W. C.; Faivovich, J. N. (2013). "Phylogenetic relationships of a Patagonian frog radiation, the Alsodes + Eupsophus clade (Anura: Alsodidae), with comments on the supposed paraphyly of Eupsophus". Cladistics 29 (2): 113–131. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00417.x.