Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Cornuferinae Noble, 1931, Biol. Amph.: 521. Type genus: Cornufer Tschudi, 1838. Synonymy by implication of synonymy of Cornufer with Eleutherodactylus by Zweifel, 1966, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 23: 167-168.

Eleutherodactylinae Lutz, 1954, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 52: 157. Type genus: Eleutherodactylus Duméril and Bibron, 1841. Synonymy with Brachycephalina Günther, 1858, by Dubois, 2005, Alytes, 23: 11; Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 197.

Eleutherodactylini — Lynch, 1969, Final PhD Exam, Program: 3. Lynch, 1971, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 53: 142.

Eleutherodactylinae — Laurent, 1980 "1979", Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 104: 418. Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 49.

Eleutherodactylidae — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 47.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Central Texas (USA) and western Mexico south to Belize and Guatemala; extreme eastern Honduras south to central Panama on the Atlantic versant and on the Pacific versant of cental Panama; eastern Panama south along the Pacific versant through western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador; Amazonian Colombia, northeastern Peru and Brazil; eastern Venezuela through central Guyana, Surinam, and French Guinea to extreme northern Brazil; Great and Lesser Antilles.

Comment

This taxon is a monophyletic subset of the former leptodactylid subfamily Eleutherodactylinae as redelimited by Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 1-182. Díaz and Cadíz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba, 4: 1-295, provided brief accounts for the Cuban species. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, provided a tree of molecular exemplars and considered Eleutherodactylidae the sister taxon of an enlarged Craugastoridae, albeit with fairly low confidence measures, and confirmed the sister-taxon relationship of Eleutherodactylinae and Phyzelaphryninae. Blackburn and Wake, 2011, In Zhang (ed.), Zootaxa, 3148, 3148: 39-55, discussed briefly the taxonomic history of the group.

Contained taxa

• Eleutherodactylinae Lutz, 1954 (197 sp.)
• Phyzelaphryninae Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008 (8 sp.)

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