Brachycephaloidea

Last updated

Brachycephaloids
Sapo pingo de ouro - Brachycephalus pitanga.jpg
Brachycephalus pitanga
Pristimantis elegans Chingaza.jpg
Pristimantis elegans
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Superfamily: Hyloidea
Clade: Brachycephaloidea
Families

Brachycephaloidea (or Terrarana) is a large monophyletic unranked clade of direct-developing frogs including more than 1,100 species, comprising about 15% of named frog species. [1] [2] Brachycephaloids inhabit the New World tropics, subtropics, and Andean regions. The group has undergone extensive changes in its taxonomy thanks to multiple molecular phylogenetic analyses in recent years. [3] [4] Until 2008, these species were placed in a single, large family (Brachycephalidae). [1]

The diverse Brachycephaloidea contains several notable taxa. It includes the smallest known vertebrates, in the genus Brachycephalus (family Brachycephalidae): B. pulex and B. dacnis . [5] [6] It also holds the most specious vertebrate genus, Pristimantis (family Strabomantidae). [7]

References

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. ↑ Fouquet, Antoine; Kok, Philippe J.R.; Recoder, Renato Sousa; Prates, Ivan; Camacho, Agustin; Marques-Souza, Sergio; Ghellere, José Mario; McDiarmid, Roy W.; Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut (February 2024). "Relicts in the mist: Two new frog families, genera and species highlight the role of Pantepui as a biodiversity museum throughout the Cenozoic". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 191 107971. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107971.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Barrientos, Lucas S.; Streicher, Jeffrey W.; Miller, Elizabeth C.; Pie, Marcio R.; Wiens, John J.; Crawford, Andrew J. (2021-10-03). "Phylogeny of terraranan frogs based on 2,665 loci and impacts of missing data on phylogenomic analyses". Systematics and Biodiversity. 19 (7): 818–833. doi:10.1080/14772000.2021.1933249. ISSN   1477-2000.
  5. ↑ Bolaños, Wendy H.; Dias, Iuri Ribeiro; Solé, Mirco (2024-02-07). "Zooming in on amphibians: Which is the smallest vertebrate in the world?" . Zoologica Scripta . 53 (4): 414–418. doi:10.1111/zsc.12654. eISSN   1463-6409. ISSN   0300-3256. S2CID   267599475.
  6. ↑ Toledo, Luís Felipe; Botelho, Lucas Machado; Carrasco-Medina, Andres Santiago; Gray, Jaimi A.; Ernetti, Julia R.; Gama, Joana Moura; Lyra, Mariana Lucio; Blackburn, David C.; Nunes, Ivan; Muscat, Edelcio (2024-10-25). "Among the world's smallest vertebrates: a new miniaturized flea-toad (Brachycephalidae) from the Atlantic rainforest". PeerJ . 12 e18265. doi: 10.7717/peerj.18265 . ISSN   2167-8359. PMC   11514764 . PMID   39469590.
  7. ↑ Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M.; C, J. Amanda Delgado; Guayasamin, Juan M. (2014-03-20). "A new rainfrog of the Pristimantis myersi Group (Amphibia, Craugastoridae) from Volcán Pichincha, Ecuador". Zootaxa . 3780 (1): 36–50. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3780.1.2. ISSN   1175-5334.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.