Leiopelmatidae

Taxonavigation [edit]

Leiopelma hochstetteri

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
Synonyms (4): Ascaphidae - Leiopelmidae - Liopelmidae - Liopelmatidae
Genera (4): Ascaphus – Leiopelma – †Notobatrachus – †Vieraella

Leiopelmatidae Mivart, 1869 [placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology, with the Name Number 483, by Melville (1977: 167)]
- Type genus: Leiopelma Fitzinger, 1861

Melville, R.V. 1977: Opinion 1071. Emendation under the plenary powers of Liopelmatina to Leiopelmatidae (Amphibia Salientia). Bulletin of zoological nomenclature, 33(3/4): 167-169. BHL
Mivart, St.G. 1869: On the classification of the anurous batrachians. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1869[37(1)]: 280-295. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1869.tb07329.x BHL reference page [first availability, see p. 291]

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
Green, D.M.; Cannatella, D.C. 1993: Phylogenetic significance of the amphicoelous frogs, Ascaphidae and Leiopelmatidae. Ethology ecology & evolution, 5(2): 233-245. doi: 10.1080/08927014.1993.9523107

Stephenson, N.G. 1951: Observations on the development of the amphicoelous frogs, Leiopelma and Ascaphus. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, zoology, 42(283): 18-28. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1951.tb01851.x
Amphibian Species of the World 5.1 Leiopelmatidae access date 03 June 2008

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