Leiopelma
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Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Anura |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Leiopelmatidae
Genus: Leiopelma
Species (4 + 5†):
L. archeyi –
L. hamiltoni –
L. hochstetteri –
L. pakeka –
†L. acricarina –
†L. auroraensis –
†L. markhami –
†L. miocaenale –
†L. waitomoensis
Name
[edit]- Leiopelma Fitzinger, 1861 [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology, with the Name Number 2038, by Melville (1977: 167)]
- Type species: Leiopelma hochstetteri Fitzinger, 1861
- Fixation: monotypy
- ZooBank: D93BC858-18F8-45EB-80DA-1CBAF33CE803
- Type species: Leiopelma hochstetteri Fitzinger, 1861
Synonyms
[edit]- Leioaspetos
- Liopelma
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Fitzinger, L. 1861. Eine neue Batrachier-Gattung aus Neu-Seeland. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 11: 217–220, plate VI. BHL Reference page. [first availability, see p. 218]
- 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
Additional references
[edit]- Bell 2010: The threatened leiopelmatid frogs of New Zealand: natural history integrates with conservation. Herpetological conservation and biology, 5(3): 515–528. PDF
- Bell; Wassersug, R.J. 2003: Anatomical features of Leiopelma embryos and larvae: implications for anuran evolution. Journal of morphology, 256(2): 160–170. DOI: 10.1002/jmor.10082
- 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(3): 201–251. Google books Reference page.
- 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(4): 409–420. DOI: 10.1080/03036758.1987.10426482 Reference page.
- Worthy, T.H., Tennyson, A.J.D., Scofield, R.P. & Hand, S.J. 2013. Early Miocene fossil frogs (Anura: Leiopelmatidae) from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 43(4): 211–230. DOI: 10.1080/03036758.2013.825300 Reference page.
Vernacular names
[edit]English: New Zealand frogs