Strabomantinae Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008
Strabomantinae Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 103. Type genus: Strabomantis Peters, 1863, by original designation.
Strabomantidae Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 95. Type genus: Strabomantis Peters, 1863, by original designation.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Costa Rica through the wet tropics of Colombia, northern Venezuela, Ecuador, eastern Peru, and western Brazil.
Comment
Removed from Brachycephalidae by Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 95. Association of Atopophrynus, Dischidodactylus, Euparkerella, and Geobatrachus was made provisionally with this taxon by Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 1-182, substantially on the basis of geography (p. 97). Padial, Castroviejo-Fisher, and De la Riva, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 52: 911-915, provided molecular evidence that this taxon may not be monophyletic. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, redelimited this taxon to just Strabomantis, as a subfamily of Crausgastoridae, and suggested that it does not form a monophyletic group with Holoadeninae, but more likely with Hypodactylus.
Contained taxa
- Strabomantis Peters, 1863 (17 sp.)
- Yunganastes Padial, Castroviejo-Fisher, Köhler, Domic, and De la Riva, 2007 (5 sp.)
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