Nasikabatrachidae Biju and Bossuyt, 2003
Nasikabatrachidae Biju and Bossuyt, 2003, Nature, 425: 711. Type genus: Nasikabatrachus Biju and Bossuyt, 2003.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Western Ghats of southern India.
Comment
See comment under Sooglossidae. 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: 191, regarded Nasikabatrachidae to be a synonym of Sooglossidae because the former is monotypic and the two together form a monophyletic unit. However, subsequent, nearly universal, usage has been to treat these as distinct due to the antiquity of both groups. Bossuyt and Roelants, 2009, in Hedges and Kumar (eds.), Timetree of Life: 357-364, considered this taxon a distinct family based on the age of its divergence from Sooglossidae. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences confirmed this sister-taxon relationship of Nasikabatrachidae and Sooglossidae. Blackburn and Wake, 2011, In Zhang (ed.), Zootaxa, 3148, 3148: 39-55, briefly reviewed the taxonomic history of this taxon.
Contained taxa
- Nasikabatrachus Biju and Bossuyt, 2003 (1 sp.)
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