Notaden Günther, 1873
Notaden Günther, 1873, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 4, 11: 349. Type species: Notaden bennettii Günther, 1873, by monotypy.
English Names
Australian Spadefoot Toads (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 95).
Distribution
Australia.
Comment
See Hosmer, 1962, Am. Mus. Novit., 2077: 1, and Shea and Johnston, 1988, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 112: 29-37, for accounts and discussion. See Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2, for keys and accounts. 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, considered Notaden to be the sister taxon of Opisthodon (now Platyplectrum) + Lechriodus. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed the monophyly of the group and provided a tree of their molecular exemplars, but suggested a close relationship to Neobatrachus.
Contained taxa
- Notaden bennettii Günther, 1873
- Notaden melanoscaphus Hosmer, 1962
- Notaden nichollsi Parker, 1940
- Notaden weigeli Shea and Johnston, 1988
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