Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Leiuperina Bonaparte, 1850, Conspect. Syst. Herpetol. Amph.: 1 p. Type genus: Leiuperus Duméril and Bibron, 1841.

Paludicolina Mivart, 1869, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1869: 290. Type genus: Paludicola Wagler, 1830. Synonymy by Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 154.

Paludicolidae — Miranda-Ribeiro, 1924, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 1: 143.

Paludicolinae — Lutz, 1929, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 22: 5.

Pseudopaludicolinae Gallardo, 1965, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 17: 84. Type genus: Pseudopaludicola Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926. Synonymy by Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 154.

Leiuperidae — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 154.

Leiuperinae — Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Southern Mexico throughout Central and South America south to southern Chile and southern Argentina.

Comment

The literature of this taxon is deeply intertwined with that of Leptodactylidae. See comment under Leptodactylidae for relevant literature. Removed from the synonymy of Leptodactylidae by Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 154, who considered this taxon to be the sister taxon of Bufonidae + Hylodidae + Dendrobatoidea. Synonymy of Leiuperina with Leptodactylidae had been made by implication of synonymy of Leiuperus with Pleurodema by Parker, 1927, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 20: 465. Vitt and Caldwell, 2009, Herpetology, 3rd Ed.: 457-459, provided a general taxonomic account and map as part of a much more general and extensive overview of amphibian biology. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, suggested that Leiuperinae is the sister taxon of their Paratelmatobiinae.

Contained taxa

• Edalorhina Jiménez de la Espada, 1870 (2 sp.)
• Engystomops Jiménez de la Espada, 1872 (9 sp.)
• Eupemphix Steindachner, 1863 (1 sp.)
• Physalaemus Fitzinger, 1826 (45 sp.)
• Pleurodema Tschudi, 1838 (15 sp.)
• Pseudopaludicola Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926 (16 sp.)

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