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| Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks) | Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri | Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records |
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Nyctibatrachidae Blommers-Schlösser, 1993
29 species
Nyctibatrachinae Blommers-Schlösser, 1993, Ethol. Ecol. Evol., 5: 211. Type genus: Nyctibatrachus Boulenger, 1882.
Lankanectinae Dubois and Ohler, 2001, Alytes, 19: 82. Type genus: Lankanectes Dubois and Ohler, 2001. Synonymy by 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: 247.
English Names
Robust Frogs (Vitt and Caldwell, 2009, Herpetology, 3rd Ed.: 477).
Distribution
Western Ghats in India; Sri Lanka.
Comment
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, redelimited the taxon and considered it to be distantly related to Ranidae, with which it had formerly been confused. Bossuyt, Brown, Hillis, Cannatella, and Milinkovitch, 2006, Syst. Biol., 55: 579-594, provided results that corroborates the monophyly of Nyctibatrachidae (sensu Frost et al., 2006). Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences confirmed the monophyly of the family and its position as the sister taxon of Ceratobatrachidae + "Ingerana" baluensis. Bossuyt and Roelants, 2009, in Hedges and Kumar (eds.), Timetree of Life: 357-364, considered this taxon a distinct family based on its Mesozoic origin. Blackburn and Wake, 2011, In Zhang (ed.), Zootaxa, 3148: 39-55, briefly reviewed the taxonomic history of this taxon. Van Bocxlaer, Biju, Willaert, Giri, Shouche, and Bossuyt, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 62: 839-847, reported on the molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the family. Vitt and Caldwell, 2013, Herpetology, 4th Ed., provided a summary of life history, diagnosis, and taxonomy.
Contained taxa (29 sp.):
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