Taudactylus Straughan and Lee, 1966
Taudactylus Straughan and Lee, 1966, Proc. R. Soc. Queensland, 77: 63. Type species: Taudactylus diurnus Straughan and Lee, 1966, by original designation.
English Names
Torrent Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 95).
Distribution
Eastern to northeastern Queensland, Australia.
Comment
This genus was last revised by Liem and Hosmer, 1973, Mem. Queensland Mus., 16: 437. Czechura and Ingram, 1990, Mem. Queensland Mus., 29: 361-365, discussed the possible extinction of species. 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, found Taudactylus to be the sister taxon of all myobatrachids, excluding Mixophyes and Rheobatrachus. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed this relationship.
Contained taxa
- Taudactylus acutirostris (Andersson, 1916)
- Taudactylus diurnus Straughan and Lee, 1966
- Taudactylus eungellensis Liem and Hosmer, 1973
- Taudactylus liemi Ingram, 1980
- Taudactylus pleione Czechura, 1986
- Taudactylus rheophilus Liem and Hosmer, 1973
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