Centrolenidae

Centrolene quindianum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Centrolenidae
Subfamiliae (2): Centroleninae – Hyalinobatrachinae

Name

Centrolenidae Taylor, 1951

• Type genus: Centrolene Jiménez de la Espada, 1872.

Synonymy

• Centrolenidae Taylor, 1951: 36 [original status as familia]
• Centroleninae — Barrio, 1968: 165 [reduced to subfamilia of Hylidae]

References

Primary references

• Taylor, E.H. 1951. Two new genera and a new family of tropical American frogs. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 64: 33–40. BHL

Additional references

• Darst, C.R. & Cannatella, D.C. 2004. Novel relationships among hyloid frogs inferred from 12S and 16S mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31(2): 462–475. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2003.09.003 Reference page. 
• Faivovich, J., Haddad, C.F.B., Garcia, P.C.A., Frost, D.R., Campbell, J.A. & Wheller, W.C. 2005. Systematic review of the frog family Hylidae, with special reference to Hylinae: phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 294: 1–240. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2005)294[0001:SROTFF]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/462 Reference page. 
• Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P.E., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–370. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5781 . Reference page. 
• Cisneros-Heredia, D.F. & McDiarmid, R.W. 2007. Revision of the characters of Centrolenidae (Amphibia: Anura: Athesphatanura), with comments on its taxonomy and the description of new taxa of glassfrogs. Zootaxa 1572(1): 1–182. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1572.1.1 Reference page. 
• Guayasamin, J.M. & Trueb, L. 2007. A new species of Glassfrog (Anura: Centrolenidae) from the lowlands of northwestern Ecuador, with comments on centrolenid osteology. Zootaxa 1447(1): 27–45. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1447.1.2 Reference page. 
• Guayasamin, J.M., Castroviejo-Fisher, S., Ayarzagüena, J., Trueb, L. & Vilà, C. 2008. Phylogenetic relationships of glassfrogs (Centrolenidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48(2): 574–595. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.04.012 Reference page. 
• Guayasamin, J.M, Castroviejo-Fisher, S., Trueb, L., Ayarzagüena, J., Rada, M. & Vilà, C. 2009. Phylogenetic systematics of glassfrogs (Amphibia: Centrolenidae) and their sister taxon Allophryne ruthveni. Zootaxa 2100(1): 1–97. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2100.1.1 Reference page. 
• Pyron, R.A. & Wiens, J.J. 2011. A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2,800 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 Reference page. 
• Castroviejo-Fisher, S., Guayasamin, J.M., Gonzalez-Voyer, A. & Vilà, C. 2014. Neotropical diversification seen through glassfrogs. Journal of Biogeography 41(1): 66–80. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12208 Reference page. 
• Streicher, J.W., Miller, E.C., Guerrero, P.C., Correa, C., Ortiz, J.C., Crawford, A.J., Pie, M.R. & Wiens, J.J. 2018. Evaluating methods for phylogenomic analyses, and a new phylogeny for a major frog clade (Hyloidea) based on 2214 loci. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 119: 128–143. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.10.013 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Glasfrösche
English: Glass Frogs
日本語: アマガエルモドキ科

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