Pelobatidae Bonaparte, 1850

Most workers before Griffiths, 1960, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 13, 2: 626-640, and Griffiths, 1963, Biol. Rev. Cambridge Philos. Soc., 38: 273, considered Sooglossidae to be included in Pelobatidae (in the sense of including Megophryidae and Scaphiopodidae of this list). Rocek, 1981 "1980", Acta Univ. Carol., Prague, Biol., 1980: 140-156, discussed the relationships between the living and fossil taxa and suggested the independent evolution of the Pelobates group and the Scaphiopus group, which he treated as separate families, Pelobatidae and Scaphiopodidae. Nevertheless, most workers persisted in regarding Scaphiopodidae to be part of Pelobatidae prior to the study of García-París, Buchholz, and Parra-Olea, 2003, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 28: 12-23, who suggested a relationship of Scaphiopodidae + (Pelodytidae + (Pelobatidae + Megophryidae)). See Sage, Prager, and Wake, 1982, J. Zool., London, 198: 481-494, for immunological evidence. Dubois, 1983, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 52: 271-272; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 13; and Dubois, 2005, Alytes, 23: 8, arranged Pelobatidae into four subfamilies (Pelobatinae [for Pelobates], Scaphiopodinae [Scaphiopodidae of this list], Megophryinae [now part of Megophryidae], and Leptobrachiinae [now part of Megophryidae]). See Ford and Cannatella, 1993, Herpetol. Monogr., 7: 94-117, for separation of Pelobatidae (sensu lato) from Megophryidae. Maglia, 1998, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 10: 1-19, suggested a relationship of (((Pelobatidae) (Pelodytidae)) Megophryidae), but constrained the monophyly of her ingroup so monophyly of the overall group was an assumption, not a result. Xie and Wang, 2000, Cultum Herpetol. Sinica, 8: 356-370, considered Megophryidae to be a subfamily of Pelobatidae and discussed the history of taxonomy of the group. 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, suggested on the basis of morphology and molecular data that Pelobatidae is the sister taxon of Megophryidae. Veith, Fromhage, Kosuch, and Vences, 2006, Contrib. Zool., Amsterdam, 75: 109-120, reported on phylogenetics of the group. Vitt and Caldwell, 2009, Herpetology, 3rd Ed.: 441-443, provided a general taxonomic account and map as part of a much more general and extensive overview of amphibian biology. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed the placement of Pelobatidae as the sister taxon of Megophryidae. Blackburn and Wake, 2011, In Zhang (ed.), Zootaxa, 3148, 3148: 39-55, briefly reviewed the taxonomic history of this taxon.

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Pelobates Wagler, 1830 (4 sp.)

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Pelobatidae Bonaparte, 1850

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