Myobatrachidae

Crinia signifera

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: Myobatrachidae
Genera (14): Anstisia – Arenophryne – Assa – Crinia – Geocrinia – Metacrinia – Mixophyes – Myobatrachus – Paracrinia – Pseudophryne – Rheobatrachus – Spicospina – Taudactylus – Uperoleia

Name

Myobatrachidae Schlegel in Gray, 1850

• Type genus: Myobatrachus Schlegel, 1850.

Synonymy

• Myobatrachinae Schlegel in Gray, 1850: 10
• Myiobatrachidae Bonaparte, 1850
• Uperoliidae Günther, 1858
• Criniae Cope, 1866
• Uperoleiidae — Keferstein, 1867
• Uperoliina — Mivart, 1869
• Myobatrachida — Knauer, 1883
• Criniinae — Noble, 1931
• Myobatrachinae — Parker, 1940
• Myobatrachidae — Lynch, 1973
• Rheobatrachinae Heyer & Liem, 1976
• Rheobatrachidae — Laurent, 1980

References

Primary references

• Gray, J.E. 1850. Description of a new genus of batrachians from Swan River. By Dr. H. Schlegel, Curator of the Royal Zoological Museum, Leyden. (Extracted from a letter to J. E. Gray, Esq.). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1850: 9–10.
• Lynch, J.D. 1973. The transition from archaic to advanced frogs. pp. 133–182 in Vial, J.L. (ed.). Evolutionary Biology of the Anurans: Contemporary Research on Major Problems. University of Missouri Press: Columbia, Missouri.

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. 
• 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. 

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Australische Südfrösche
English: Australian Froglets
日本語: カメガエル科
polski: Żółwinkowate