Ascaphidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Archaeobatrachia
Main Page Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Chordata Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura Subordo: Archaeobatrachia

Familia: Leiopelmatidae
Synonym: Ascaphidae

Name

• Ascaphidae Fejérváry, 1923
  • Authority for current placement: Frost et al., 2006: 118 ('To remove the redundancy of the family-group names with the two genera (Ascaphus and Leiopelma), we assign Ascaphus to Leiopelmatidae (as did San Mauro et al., 2005) ... when Ascaphidae and Leiopelmatidae are regarded as synonymous, as we do')

References

primary references

• Fejérváry, G.J. de 1923: Ascaphidae, a new family of the tailless batrachians. Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici, 20: 178-181. PDF

selected references

• Frost, D.R. et al. 2006: The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, (297) doi: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2 handle reference page 

links

• BHL bibliography
• Catalogue of Life: 2012 Annual Checklist
• EoL
• GBIF
• ION