Adenomera Steindachner, 1867
Adenomera Steindachner, 1867, Reise Österreichischen Fregatte Novara, Zool., Amph.: 37. Type species: Adenomera marmorata Steindachner, 1867, by monotypy.
English Names
Tropical Bullfrogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 70).
Distribution
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Leptodactylus by Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, where it had been placed by 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: 207. See comment under Leptodactylus for additional comments related to its taxonomic history with that genus. Kok, 2000, Brit. Herpetol. Soc. Bull., 71: 21, reported two undescribed species of nominal Adenomera from French Guiana. Angulo, Cocroft, and Reichle, 2003, Herpetologica, 59: 490-504, reported on the basis of call parameters, four species in southeastern Peru, of which two might correspond to Adenomera hylaedactyla and Adenomera andreae, although the associations of call-types to taxa remain confusing. Angulo and Icochea, 2010, Syst. Biodiversity, 8: 357-370, discussed cryptic species in the Leptodactylus marmoratus group. Heyer, 1974, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 253: 1-46, resurrected Adenomera for the Leptodactylus marmoratus group and Heyer, 1977, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 89: 581-592, compared the species phenetically. 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: 207, on the basis of evidence presented by Heyer, 1998, Alytes, 16: 1-24, and Kokubum and Giaretta, 2005, J. Nat. Hist., 39: 1745-1758, placed Lithodytes (including Adenomera) as a subgenus of Leptodactylus on phylogenetic grounds. Ponssa and Heyer, 2007, Zootaxa, 1403: 1-24, postulated that this evidence might be wrong and retained Adenomera and Lithodytes on the basis of this doubt. The Leptodactylus marmoratus group was transferred to Adenomera by Heyer, 1974, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 253: 1-46 Kwet, Steiner, and Zillikens, 2009, Stud. Neotrop. Fauna Environ., 44: 94, argued for the retention of Adenomera. Giaretta, Freitas, Antoniazzi, and Jared, 2011, Zootaxa, 3011: 38-44, provided larval morphology that suggests that nominal Adenomera is a subtaxon of the Leptodactylus fuscus group. Heyer and de Sá, 2011, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 635: 1-58, provided a review and revision of the Leptodactylus bolivianus complex. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, and excluding morphological evidence, concluded that Lithodytes is the sister taxon of Adenomera and together the sister taxon of Leptodactylus.
Contained taxa
- Adenomera ajurauna (Berneck, Costa, and Garcia, 2008)
- Adenomera andreae (Müller, 1923)
- Adenomera araucaria Kwet and Angulo, 2002
- Adenomera bokermanni (Heyer, 1973)
- Adenomera coca (Angulo and Reichle, 2008)
- Adenomera diptyx (Boettger, 1885)
- Adenomera engelsi Kwet, Steiner, and Zillikens, 2009
- Adenomera heyeri Boistel, Massary, and Angulo, 2006
- Adenomera hylaedactyla (Cope, 1868)
- Adenomera lutzi Heyer, 1975
- Adenomera marmorata Steindachner, 1867
- Adenomera martinezi (Bokermann, 1956)
- Adenomera nana (Müller, 1922)
- Adenomera simonstuarti (Angulo and Icochea, 2010)
- Adenomera thomei (Almeida and Angulo, 2006)
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