Nasikabatrachus Biju and Bossuyt, 2003
Nasikabatrachus Biju and Bossuyt, 2003, Nature, 425: 711. Type species: Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis Biju and Bossuyt, 2003, by original designation.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
As for the single species.
Comment
Considered to be the sister taxon of Sooglossidae in the original publication ( Biju and Bossuyt, 2003, Nature, 425: 711-714). See also Hedges, 2003, Nature, 425: 669-670. Dutta, Vasudevan, Chaitra, Shanker, and Aggarwal, 2004, Curr. Sci., Bangalore, 86: 211-216, noted an undescribed species in this genus and discussed phylogeny. Scott, 2005, Cladistics, 21: 521, suggested on the basis of external morphological characteristics provided in the original description that Nasikabatrachus might be closely related to Hemisus (Hemisotidae).
Contained taxa
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