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Pseudopaludicola Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Leptodactylidae > Subfamily: Leiuperinae > Genus: Pseudopaludicola

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Pseudopaludicola Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 27: 152. Type species: Liuperus falcipes Hensel, 1867, by monotypy.

English Names

Dwarf Swamp Frogs (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 92).

Swamp Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 84).

Distribution

Northern and central South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Guiana, southwestern Surinam, northeastern Peru, eastern Bolivia, Paraugya, much of Brazil and northern eastern and central Argentina and Urugay.

Comment

Closely related to Physalaemus and Pleurodema, according to Cei, 1980, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Monogr., 2: 410. See comment under Physalaemus. Species reviewed by Lynch, 1989, Copeia, 1989: 577-588, who defined and discussed phylogenetic relationships within the monophyletic Pseudopaludicola pusilla group noted in the accounts below. See Lobo, 1995, Cuad. Herpetol., 9: 21-43, for a phylogenetic analysis and key. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, suggested that Pseudopaludicola is the sister taxon of remaining leiuperines. Cardozo and Suárez, 2012, Zootaxa, 3515: 75-82, provided a morphological tree that suggested that Pseudopaludicola is imbedded phylogenetically within Physalaemus.

Contained taxa

  • Pseudopaludicola ameghini (Cope, 1887)
  • Pseudopaludicola boliviana Parker, 1927
  • Pseudopaludicola canga Giaretta and Kokubum, 2003
  • Pseudopaludicola ceratophyes Rivero and Serna, 1985
  • Pseudopaludicola falcipes (Hensel, 1867)
  • Pseudopaludicola giarettai Carvalho, 2012
  • Pseudopaludicola hyleaustralis Pansonato, Morais, Ávila, Kawashita-Ribeiro, Strussmann, and Martins, 2012
  • Pseudopaludicola llanera Lynch, 1989
  • Pseudopaludicola mineira Lobo, 1994
  • Pseudopaludicola murundu Toledo, Siqueira, Duarte, Veiga-Menoncello, Recco-Pimentel, and Haddad, 2010
  • Pseudopaludicola mystacalis (Cope, 1887)
  • Pseudopaludicola pusilla (Ruthven, 1916)
  • Pseudopaludicola riopiedadensis Mercadal de Barrio and Barrio, 1994
  • Pseudopaludicola saltica (Cope, 1887)
  • Pseudopaludicola serrana Toledo, 2010
  • Pseudopaludicola ternetzi Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937

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