Sooglossidae

Sooglossus sechellensis

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: Sooglossidae
Genera (2): Sechellophryne – Sooglossus

Name

Sooglossidae Noble, 1931

• Type genus: Sooglossus Boulenger, 1906

Synonymy

• Sooglossinae Noble, 1931: 494 [as subfamilia]
• Sooglossidae — Griffiths, 1963: 273 [elevate to familia]
• Sooglossoidea — Dubois, 2005: 18

References

Primary references

• Noble, G.K. 1931. The Biology of the Amphibia. McGraw-Hill: New York and London.
• Griffiths, I. 1963. The phylogeny of the Salientia. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 38: 241–292.

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. 
• Roelants, K., Gower, D.J., Wilkinson, M., Loader, S.P., Biju, S.D., Guillaume, K., Moriau, L. & Bossuyt, F. 2007. Global patterns of diversification in the history of modern amphibians. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104(3): 887–892. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0608378104 Reference page. 
• Van der Meijden, A., Boistel, R., Gerlach, J., Ohler, A., Vences, M. & Meyer, A. 2007. Molecular phylogenetic evidence for paraphyly of the genus Sooglossus, with the description of a new genus of Seychellean frogs. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 91(3): 347–359. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00800.x 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. . PDF
• 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. 
• Labisko, J., Griffiths, R.A., Chong-Seng, L., Bunbury, N., Maddock, S.T., Bradfield, K.S., Taylor, M.L. & Groombridge, J.J. 2019. Endemic, endangered and evolutionarily significant: cryptic lineages in Seychelles’ frogs (Anura: Sooglossidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 126(3): 417–435. DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/bly183 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Seychellenfrösche
English: Seychelles Frogs
magyar: Seychelle-szigeteki békafélék
日本語: セーシェルガエル科
Nederlands: Seychellenkikkers
slovenčina: Sooglosidovité

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