Hyperoliidae

Heterixalus alboguttatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

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

Familia: Hyperoliidae
Subfamiliae (3): Acanthixalinae – Hyperoliinae – Kassininae
Genera incertae sedis (3): Arlequinus – Callixalus – Chrysobatrachus

Name

Hyperoliidae Laurent, 1943

• Type genus: Hyperolius Rapp, 1842.

Synonymy

• Hyperoliinae Laurent, 1943: 16
• Hyperoliidae — Laurent, 1951
• Hyperoliini — Laurent, 1972
• Kassininae — Dubois, 1981
• Kassinini — Dubois, 1987
• Tachycneminae Channing, 1989

References

Primary references

• Laurent, R.F. 1943. Contribution a l’osteologie et a la systematique des rhacophorides non Africains. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 19: 1–16.

Additional references

• 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. 

Vernacular names

• Deutsch: Riedfrösche
• English: African Reed Frogs
• magyar: Mászóbékafélék
• 日本語: クサガエル科
• Nederlands: Rietkikkers
• slovenčina: Trstinovite
• svenska: Grasgrodor