Latonia

Latonia

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: Alytidae
Genus: Latonia
Species (1 + †4): †L. gigantea – L. nigriventer – †L. ragei – †L. seyfriedi – †L. vertaizoni

Name

• Latonia Meyer, 1843: 580

Type species: †Latonia (Ceratophrys) seyfriedii Meyer, 1843, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Meyer, H. von 1843. [Mittheilung an professor Bronn gerichtet]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 1843(II. Briefwechsel): 579–590. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Rocek, Z. 1994. Taxonomy and Distribution of Tertiary Discoglossids (Anura) of the genus Latonia v. Meyer, 1843. Geobios 27(6): 717–751.
• Biton, R., Geffen, E., Vences, M., Cohen, O., Bailon, S., Rabinovich, R., Malka, Y., Oron, T., Boistel, R., Brumfeld, V. & Gafny, S. 2013. The rediscovered Hula painted frog is a living fossil. Nature Communications 4: 1959. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2959
• Biton, R., Boistel, R., Rabinovich, R., Gafny, S., Brumfeld, V. & Bailon, S. 2016. Osteological Observations on the Alytid Anura Latonia nigriventer with Comments on Functional Morphology, Biogeography, and Evolutionary History. Journal of Morphology 277(9): 1131–1145. DOI: 10.1002/jmor.20562