Leiopelma

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Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Amphibia
Subclassis: Lissamphibia
Ordo: Anura
Subordo: Archaeobatrachia
Familia: Leiopelmatidae
Genus: Leiopelma
Species: L. archeyi - L. hamiltoni - L. hochstetteri - L. pakeka

[edit] Fossil species

†L. auroraensis - †L. markhami - †L. waitomoensis

[edit] Name

Leiopelma Fitzinger, 1861

[edit] Synonyms

• Leiopelma Fitzinger, 1861. Type species: Leiopelma hochstetteri Fitzinger, 1861
• Leioaspetos Wells & Wellington, 1985

[edit] References

• Fitzinger, 1861, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 11: 218.
• Amphibian Species of the World 5.1 Leiopelma access date 03 June 2008
• Wells, R.W.; Wellington, C.R. 1985: A synopsis of the Amphibia and Reptilia of New Zealand. Australian journal of herpetology (supplementary series), (1): 62-64.
• Worthy, T.H. 1987: Osteology of Leiopelma (Amphibia: Leiopelmatidae) and descriptions of three new subfossil Leiopelma species. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 17: 201-251.
• Worthy, T.H. 1987: Paleoecological information concerning members of the frog genus Leiopelma (Leiopelmatidae) in New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 17: 409-420.

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