Ptychadenidae

Ptychadena mascareniensis

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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: Neobatrachia
Familia: Ptychadenidae
Genera: Hildebrandtia – Lanzarana – Ptychadena

Name

Ptychadenidae Dubois, 1987

Type genus: Ptychadena Boulenger, 1917

Synonyms

• Ptychadenini Dubois, 1987
• Ptychadeninae — Dubois, 1992
• Ptychadenidae — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006

References

• Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 55.
• Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 235
• Amphibian Species of the World 5.1 Ptychadenidae access date 26 June 2008

Note

Originally a tribe (Ptychadenini) within the familia Ranidae.

Vernacular names

English: Ridged Frogs