Grandisoniidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gymnophiona

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: Gymnophiona

Familia: Grandisoniidae
Genera (7): Gegeneophis – Grandisonia – Hypogeophis – Idiocranium – Indotyphlus – Praslinia – Sylvacaecilia

Name

Grandisoniidae Lescure, Renous & Gasc, 1986

• Type genus: Grandisonia Taylor, 1968.

Synonymy

• Indotyphlini Lescure, Renous & Gasc, 1986: 164 [as tribus]
  • Type genus: Indotyphlus Taylor, 1960.
• Grandisoniilae Lescure, Renous & Gasc, 1986: 164 [as infrafamilia]
  • Type genus: Grandisonia Taylor, 1968.
• Indotyphlidae — Wilkinson, San Mauro, Sherratt & Gower, 2011: 3 [elevate to familia]
• Grandisoniidae — Dubois, Ohler & Pyron, 2021: 269 [Application of this name as the appropriate family-group name under Art. 24.1 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature]

References

Primary references

• Lescure, J., Renous, S. & Gasc, J.-P. 1986. Proposition d'une nouvelle classification des amphibiens gymnophiones. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 43: 145–177. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Wilkinson, M., San Mauro, D., Sherratt, E. & Gower, D.J. 2011. A nine-family classification of caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Zootaxa 2874(1): 41–64. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2874.1.3 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. 
• 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. 
• San Mauro, D., Gower, D.J., Cotton, J.A., Zardoya, R., Wilinson, M. & Massingham, T. 2012. Experimental design in phylogenetic: testing predictions from expected information. Systematic Biology 61(4): 661–674. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/sys028 Reference page. 
• Maddin, H.C., Russell, A.P. & Anderson, J.S. 2012. Phylogenetic implications of the morphology of the braincase of caecilian amphibians (Gymnophiona). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 166(1): 160–201. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00838.x Reference page. 
• Dubois, A., Ohler, A. & Pyron, R.A. 2021. New concepts and methods for phylogenetic taxonomy and nomenclature in zoology, exemplified by a new ranked cladonomy of recent amphibians. Megataxa 5(1): 1–738. DOI: 10.11646/MEGATAXA.5.1.1 Reference page.