Phyllomedusidae
| Phyllomedusidae | |
|---|---|
| Burmeister's leaf frog (Phyllomedusa burmeisteri) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Phyllomedusidae Gunther, 1858 |
| Diversity | |
| 8 genera, 66 species | |
| Distribution of Phyllomedusidae in pink, with other tree frog families: Hylidae in black and Pelodryadidae in blue. | |
Phyllomedusidae is a family of frogs found in the Neotropics commonly called leaf frogs. Formerly, they were often considered as a subfamily of the tree frog, Hylidae, but are increasingly considered a separate family[1].
The leaf frogs are considered to be the sister group to the Australian treefrogs (Pelodryadidae), a family of frogs known from Australia and New Guinea, despite being very geographically separated from them. The common ancestor of both families is thought to have lived in early Cenozoic South America, where the Phyllomedusidae still live, with the two families diverging from one another during the Eocene. The ancestors of Pelodryadidae likely colonized Australasia from South America via Antarctica, which at the time was not yet frozen over.[2] The clade comprising both subfamilies is sister to the Hylidae, from which they diverged in the early Paleogene.[3]
Taxonomy
The family Phyllomedusidae contains the following genera:
- Agalychnis (14 species)
- Callimedusa (six species)
- Cruziohyla (three species)
- Hylomantis – rough leaf frogs (two species)
- Phasmahyla – shining leaf frogs (eight species)
- Phrynomedusa – colored leaf frogs (five living species, plus one recently extinct)
- Phyllomedusa (16 species)
- Pithecopus (12 species)
References
- ^ Frost D. (2026-04-01). "Phyllomedusidae Günther, 1858". Amphibians of the World. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2026-04-01.
- ^ Duellman, William E.; Marion, Angela B.; Hedges, S. Blair (2016-04-19). "Phylogenetics, classification, and biogeography of the treefrogs (Amphibia: Anura: Arboranae)". Zootaxa. 4104 (1): 1–109. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4104.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 27394762.
- ^ Feng, Yan-Jie; Blackburn, David C.; Liang, Dan; Hillis, David M.; Wake, David B.; Cannatella, David C.; Zhang, Peng (2017-07-18). "Phylogenomics reveals rapid, simultaneous diversification of three major clades of Gondwanan frogs at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114 (29): E5864–E5870. Bibcode:2017PNAS..114E5864F. doi:10.1073/pnas.1704632114. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 5530686. PMID 28673970.
External links
Data related to Phyllomedusinae at Wikispecies Media related to Phyllomedusinae at Wikimedia Commons
- Amphibian Species of the World
- http://www.tolweb.org/Phyllomedusinae Archived 2021-10-28 at the Wayback Machine
- http://amphibiaweb.org/lists/Hylidae.shtml