Crossodactylus Duméril and Bibron, 1841
Crossodactylus Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 635. Type species: Crossodactylus gaudichaudii Duméril and Bibron, 1841, by monotypy.
Limnocharis Bell, 1843, Zool. Voyage Beagle, Part 5: 33. Type species: Limnocharis fuscus Bell, 1843, by monotypy. Synonymy by Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 490.
Tarsopterus Reinhardt and Lütken, 1862 "1861", Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., Ser. 2, 3: 177. Type species: Tarsopterus trachystomus Reinhardt and Lütken, 1862, by monotypy. Synonymy by Hensel, 1867, Arch. Naturgesch., 33: 146; Lutz, 1930, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 24: 216.
Calamobates De Witte, 1930, in Massart (ed.), Miss. Biol. Belge Brésil, 2: 219. Type species: Calamobates boulengeri Witte, 1930, by monotypy. Synonymy by Lutz, 1930, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 24: 216.
English Names
Spinythumb Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 71).
Distribution
From Alagoas (in northwestern Brazil) through southern Paraguay to Paraná (in southern Brazil), and northern Argentina.
Comment
The three species groups were defined by Caramaschi and Sazima, 1985, Rev. Brasil. Zool., 3: 43-49, and further discussed by Bastos and Pombal, 1995, Copeia, 1995: 436-439. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, suggested that Crossodactylus is the sister taxon of a clade composed of Megaelosia and Hylodes.
Contained taxa
- Crossodactylus aeneus Müller, 1924
- Crossodactylus bokermanni Caramaschi and Sazima, 1985
- Crossodactylus caramaschii Bastos and Pombal, 1995
- Crossodactylus cyclospinus Nascimento, Cruz, and Feio, 2005
- Crossodactylus dantei Carcerelli and Caramaschi, 1993
- Crossodactylus dispar Lutz, 1925
- Crossodactylus gaudichaudii Duméril and Bibron, 1841
- Crossodactylus grandis Lutz, 1951
- Crossodactylus lutzorum Carcerelli and Caramaschi, 1993
- Crossodactylus schmidti Gallardo, 1961
- Crossodactylus trachystomus (Reinhardt and Lütken, 1862)
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