Alsodidae Mivart, 1869
Alsodina Mivart, 1869, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1869: 290. Type genus: Alsodes Bell, 1843.
Cacotina Mivart, 1869, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1869: 290. Type genus: Cacotus Günther, 1869 "1868". Synonymy by implication of 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: 210.
Alsodini — Lynch, 1969, Final PhD Exam, Program: 3. Lynch, 1971, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 53: 123.
Grypiscini — Lynch, 1969, Final PhD Exam, Program: 3. Lynch, 1971, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 53: 135.
Eupsophiinae Lutz, 1969, Acta Zool. Lilloana, 24: 281. Type genus: Eupsophus Fitzinger, 1843. Synonymy with Telmatobiini by implication of Lynch, 1978, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 72: 42; synonymy with Alsodina by 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: 210.
Alsodinae — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 153.
Alsodidae — Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Northwestern Brazil to Bolivia, through Paraguay to Chile and Argentina.
Comment
See comment under Cycloramphinae. Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 153, recognized Alsodinae as a subfamily of Cycloramphidae. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, subsequently recognized Alsodidae based on their DNA study that suggeste that Cycloramphidae (sensu lato) was not monophyletic; these authors also provided a tree of their molecular exemplars. See comments under Cycloramphidae for more discussion about the phylogenetics of this and related taxa.
Contained taxa
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