Brevicipitidae

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: Brevicipitidae
Genera (5): Balebreviceps – Breviceps – Callulina – Probreviceps – Spelaeophryne

Name

Brevicipitidae Bonaparte, 1850

Type genus: Breviceps Merrem, 1820.

Synonymy

Brevicipitina Bonaparte, 1850:
Engystomidae Bonaparte, 1850: 1
Systomata Stannius, 1856: 5
Engystomatidae — Günther, 1858
Brevicipitidae — Cope, 1867
Engystomitidae — Hoffmann, 1878
Engystomata — Peters, 1882
Engystomatida — Knauer, 1883
Engystomatinae — Gadow, 1901
Brevicipitinae — Stejneger, 1910
Engistomatidae — Methuen & Hewitt, 1913
Engistomatinae — Methuen & Hewitt, 1913
Brevicipetidae — Romer, 1933
Brevicepitidae — Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937
Brevicipinae — Lynch, 1971
Brevicepinae — Bogart & Tandy, 1981
Brevicipitidae — Dubois, 2005

References

Primary references

Bonaparte, C.L. 1850. Conspectus systematum Herpetologiae et Amphibiologiae. Editio altera reformata. E. J. Brill: Lugduni Batavorum. 1 p. Reference page.

Additional references

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van der Meijden, A., Vences, M. & Meyer, A. 2004. Novel phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic brevicipitine and scaphiophrynine toads as revealed by sequences from the nuclear Rag-1 gene. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences 271(Suppl. 5): S378–S381. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0196 Reference page.
van der Meijden, A., Vences, M., Hoegg, S. & Meyer, A. 2005. A previously unrecognized radiation of ranid frogs in southern Africa revealed by nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37(3): 674–685 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.05.001 Reference page.
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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.