Leiuperinae

Pleurodema brachyops

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

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

Familia: Leptodactylidae
Subfamilia: Leiuperinae
Genera (5): Edalorhina – Engystomops – Physalaemus – Pleurodema – Pseudopaludicola

Name

Leiuperinae Bonaparte, 1850: 1

• Type genus: Leiuperus Duméril & Bibron, 1841.

Synonymy

• Leiuperina Bonaparte, 1850: 1
• Paludicolina Mivart, 1869: 290
  • Type genus: Paludicola Wagler, 1830.
• Paludicolidae — Miranda-Ribeiro, 1924: 143
• Paludicolinae — Lutz, 1929: 5
• Pseudopaludicolinae Gallardo, 1965: 84
  • Type genus: Pseudopaludicola Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926.
• Leiuperidae — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel & Wheeler, 2006: 154
• Leiuperinae — Pyron & Wiens, 2011: 579

References

Primary references

• Bonaparte, C.L. 1850. Conspectus systematum Herpetologiae et Amphibiologiae. Editio altera reformata. E. J. Brill: Lugduni Batavorum. 1 p. Reference page. 
• Mivart, S.G. 1869. On the Classification of the Anurous Batrachians. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 37(1): 280–295. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1869.tb07329.x . BHL Reference page. 
• Gallardo, J.M. 1965. A proposito de los Leptodactylidae (Amphibia, Anura). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 17: 77–87.

Additional references

• Grant, T., Frost, D.R., Caldwell, J.P., Gagliardo, R., Haddad, C.F.B., Kok, P.J.R., Means, D.B., Noonan, B.P., Schargel, W.E. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 299: 1–262. hdl: 2246/5803 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

• English: Snouted Frogs