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Altigius Wild, 1995

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Genus: Altigius

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Altigius Wild, 1995, Copeia, 1995: 838. Type species: Altigius alios Wild, 1995, by original designation.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

As for the single species.

Comment

Formerly in the New World component of Microhylinae; 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: 225, did not address this taxon in their study, and they removed Altigius from any subfamily pending resolution of its phylogenetic placement. Van der Meijden, Vences, Hoegg, Boistel, Channing, and Meyer, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 44: 1017-1030, did not address this taxon. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, assigned this taxon to Gastrophryninae without comment. Trueb, Diaz, and Blackburn, 2011, Phyllomedusa, 10: 99-135. cited unpublished data of Greenbaum, 2006, Unpubl. PhD Dissert., Univ. Kansas:, as evidence of the placement of this genus in Gastrophryninae.

Contained taxa

  • Altigius alios Wild, 1995

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