Leiopelmatidae

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: Leiopelmatidae
Genera: Leiopelma – †Notobatrachus – †Vieraella

Name

Leiopelmatidae Mivart, 1869 [placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology, with the Name Number 483, by Melville, 1977: 167]

Type genus: Leiopelma Fitzinger, 1861

Synonyms

References

Primary references

Mivart, S.G. 1869. On the Classification of the Anurous Batrachians. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 37(1): 280–295. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1869.tb07329.x . BHL Reference page. [first availability, see p. 291]
Melville, R.V. 1977: Opinion 1071. Emendation under the plenary powers of Liopelmatina to Leiopelmatidae (Amphibia Salientia). Bulletin of zoological nomenclature, 33(3/4): 167–169. BHL

Additional references

Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P.E., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–370. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5781 . Reference page.
Green, D.M. & Cannatella, D.C. 1993: Phylogenetic significance of the amphicoelous frogs, Ascaphidae and Leiopelmatidae. Ethology ecology & evolution, 5(2): 233–245. DOI: 10.1080/08927014.1993.9523107
Stephenson, N.G. 1951: Observations on the development of the amphicoelous frogs, Leiopelma and Ascaphus. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, zoology, 42(283): 18–28. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1951.tb01851.x

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Neuseeländische Urfrösche
English: tailed frogs, New Zealand Frogs
日本語: ムカシガエル科
slovenčina: Chvostovité
ไทย: กบหาง, กบมีหาง