Brachycephaloidea
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Brachycephaloidea (terrarana) is a a monophyletic group of frogs that includes the families: Brachycephalidae, Craugastoridae, Eleutherodactylidae, Ceuthomantidae, and Strabomantidae. [1] The superfamily contains 882 species that inhabit the New World tropics, subtropics, and Andean regions. The group has been underwent extensive change in its taxonomy thanks to multiple molecular phylogenetic analyses in recent years. [2] Until 2008, these species were placed in a single, large family (Brachycephalidae) new analysis from 344 species were used to estimate their relationship. A new taxon was made, terrarana, separating the group into the five families listed above [1]
References
- ^ a b Hedges, S. Blair; Duellman, William E.; Heinicke, Matthew P. (2008-03-31). "New World direct-developing frogs (Anura: Terrarana): Molecular phylogeny, classification, biogeography, and conservation". Zootaxa. 1737 (1): 1–182–1–182. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1737.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ Padial, José M.; Grant, Taran; Frost, Darrel R. (2014-06-26). "Molecular systematics of terraranas (Anura: Brachycephaloidea) with an assessment of the effects of alignment and optimality criteria". Zootaxa. 3825: 1–132. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3825.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 24989881.
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