Craugastoridae Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008
Craugastoridae Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 1. Type genus: Craugastor Cope, 1862, by original designation.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Southern Arizona to central Texas (USA) and Mexico south through tropical and subtropical habitats through Colombia and Veneuzela to the Guianas; south through Ecuador, Andean and Amazonian Peru and Bolivia and the Amazon drainage of Brazil, south along the eastern slopes of the Andes to northeastern Argentina; Atlantic coastal forest of southeastern Brazil.
Comment
Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 1-182, provided an extensive systematic discussion of this taxon and its relationship to other former subtaxa of Brachycephalidae, sensu lato (= Terrarana, an unranked taxon above-family-group, in their nomenclature). Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, provided a much larger analysis in terms of the number of species, but used a slightly less amount of data for the species used by Hedges et al., 2008, for the backbone of their analysis. The results are somewhat at odds with eachother, with Pyron and Wiens, 2011, finding Strabomantidae to be nonmonophyletic and with former Craugastoridae (now Craugastorinae) imbedded within it and for this reason they placed the elements of Strabomantidae within Craugastoridae. For purposes of inferential progress, I follow Pyron and Wiens, although I look forward to seeing an analysis with much larger numbers of terminals and more data than has so far been brought to bear to bring this issue to resolution (DRF). Blackburn and Wake, 2011, In Zhang (ed.), Zootaxa, 3148, 3148: 39-55, briefly reviewed the nomenclatural history of this family-group taxon, and retained the earlier delimitation of Craugastoridae and Strabomantidae. Fouquet, Loebmann, Castroviejo-Fisher, Padial, Orrico, Lyra, Roberto, Kok, Haddad, and Rodrigues, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 65: 547-561, suggested that Craugastoridae in the sense of Hedges et al., 2008, was monophyletic, albeit on less dense taxon sampling than by Pyron and Wiens, 2011.
Contained taxa
- Atopophrynus Lynch and Ruiz-Carranza, 1982 (1 sp.)
- Dischidodactylus Lynch, 1979 (2 sp.)
- Geobatrachus Ruthven, 1915 (1 sp.)
- Hypodactylus Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008 (12 sp.)
- Niceforonia Goin and Cochran, 1963 (3 sp.)
- Craugastorinae Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008 (115 sp.)
- Holoadeninae Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008 (48 sp.)
- Pristimantinae Pyron and Wiens, 2011 (509 sp.)
- Strabomantinae Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008 (22 sp.)
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