Cacosterninae Noble, 1931

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pyxicephalidae > Subfamily: Cacosterninae
77 species

Cacosterninae Noble, 1931, Biol. Amph.: 540. Type genus: Cacosternum Boulenger, 1887. Given precedence over Hemimantidae Hoffmann, 1878, and placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology, by Anon., 1999, Opinion 1921, Anonymous, 1999, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 56: 96–100. Junior subjective synonym of Phynobatrachinae by action of First Revisor, Dubois, 1994, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 51: 240–246.

Tomopternini Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 56. Type genus: Tomopterna Duméril and Bibron, 1841. 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: 240.

TomopterninaeDubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 336.

Cacosternidae — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 232.

Anhydrophryninae Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 232. Type genus: Anhydrophryne Hewitt, 1919. 

Cacosternini — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 233. Tribe. 

Cacoternina — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 233. Subtribe. 

Poyntoniina Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 233. Type genus: Poyntonia Channing and Boycott, 1989. Subtribe. 

Natalobatrachini Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 233. Type genus: Natalobatrachus Hewitt, 1912. 

Strongylopini — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 234. Tribe.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Subsaharan Africa.

Comment

Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543–583, provided a tree of exemplars that confirmed much of earlier work although suggesting polyphyly of Strongylopus (see comments under Amietia and Strongylopus grayii).

Contained taxa (77 sp.):

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