Brevicipitidae

Breviceps gibbosus

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 Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Brevicipitidae
Genera (5): Balebreviceps – Breviceps – Callulina – Probreviceps – Spelaeophryne

Name

Brevicipitidae Bonaparte, 1850

• Type genus: Breviceps Merrem, 1820.

Synonymy

• Brevicipitina Bonaparte, 1850:
• Engystomidae Bonaparte, 1850: 1
• Systomata Stannius, 1856: 5
• Engystomatidae — Günther, 1858
• Brevicipitidae — Cope, 1867
• Engystomitidae — Hoffmann, 1878
• Engystomata — Peters, 1882
• Engystomatida — Knauer, 1883
• Engystomatinae — Gadow, 1901
• Brevicipitinae — Stejneger, 1910
• Engistomatidae — Methuen & Hewitt, 1913
• Engistomatinae — Methuen & Hewitt, 1913
• Brevicipetidae — Romer, 1933
• Brevicepitidae — Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937
• Brevicipinae — Lynch, 1971
• Brevicepinae — Bogart & Tandy, 1981
• Brevicipitidae — Dubois, 2005

References

Primary references

• Bonaparte, C.L. 1850. Conspectus systematum Herpetologiae et Amphibiologiae. Editio altera reformata. E. J. Brill: Lugduni Batavorum. 1 p. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Loader, S.P., Gower, D.J., Howell, K.M., Doggart, N., Rödel, M-C., Clarke, B.T., Sá, R.O., Cohen, B.L. & Wilkinson, M. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships of African microhylid frogs inferred from DNA sequences of mitochondrial 12S and 16S rRNA genes. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 4(4): 227–235. DOI: 10.1016/j.ode.2004.01.005 Reference page. 
• van der Meijden, A., Vences, M. & Meyer, A. 2004. Novel phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic brevicipitine and scaphiophrynine toads as revealed by sequences from the nuclear Rag-1 gene. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences 271(Suppl. 5): S378–S381. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0196 Reference page. 
• van der Meijden, A., Vences, M., Hoegg, S. & Meyer, A. 2005. A previously unrecognized radiation of ranid frogs in southern Africa revealed by nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37(3): 674–685 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.05.001 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. 
• Blackburn, D.C. & Wake, D.B. 2011. Class Amphibia Gray, 1825. Pp 39–55 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page.  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.