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). Some herpetologists are retaining the use of Bufo at this time (e.g., following Pauly et al., 2004) as the valid name for this group of toads.

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.