Limnodynastidae

Limnodynastes peronii

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 Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Limnodynastidae
Genera (7): Adelotus – Heleioporus – Limnodynastes – Neobatrachus – Notaden – Philoria – Platyplectrum

Name

Limnodynastidae Lynch, 1969

• Type genus: Limnodynastes Fitzinger, 1843.

Synonymy

• Limnodynastini Lynch, 1969: unpaged [original rank, as tribus]
• Limnodynastinae — Lynch, 1971: 83 [subsequent rank, as subfamilia]
• Heleioporidae Bauer, 1987: 52
  • Type genus: Heleioporus Gray, 1841.
• Limnodynastidae — Zug, Vitt & Caldwell, 2001: 411 [subsequent rank, as familia]

References

Primary references

• Lynch, J.D. 1969. Program. Final PhD Examination. University of Kansas: Lawrence, Kansas. unpaged.
• Lynch, J.D. 1971. Evolutionary relationships, osteology, and zoogeography of leptodactyloid frogs. Miscellaneous Publications, University of Kansas Museum of Natural History 53: 1–238. BHL Reference page. 

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. 
• Anstis, M., Rowley, J.J.L. & Altig, R. 2016. Morphological clarifications of Australian hylid and limnodynastid tadpoles. Zootaxa 4126(1): 146–150. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4126.1.10. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Australian Ground Frogs