Leptodactylinae Werner, 1896 (1838)

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Search tool	Example of search string in box	What that means to the database
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	*Hyla	Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
Single word	Hyla	Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
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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Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Leptodactylidae > Subfamily: Leptodactylinae

96 species

Cystignathi Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 26, 78. Type genus: Cystignathus Wagler, 1830.

Cystignathidae — Günther, 1858, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1858: 346.

Plectromantidae Mivart, 1869, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1869: 291. Type genus: Plectromantis Peters, 1862. Synonymy by implication by Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 479; Lynch, 1971, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 53: 169.

Cystignathina — Mivart, 1869, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1869: 293.

Adenomeridae Hoffmann, 1878, in Bronn (ed.), Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs, 6(2): 613. Type genus: Adenomera Steindachner, 1867. Synonymy by implication of synonymy of Adenomera with Leptodactylus by Parker, 1932, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 10, 10: 342.

Leptodactylidae Werner, 1896, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 46: 357. Type genus: Leptodactylus Fitzinger, 1826.

Cystignathinae — Gadow, 1901, Amphibia and Reptiles: 139.

Leptodactylinae — Metcalf, 1923, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 120: 272; Noble, 1931, Biol. Amph.: 504; Laurent, 1980 "1979", Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 104: 418. : 5.

Leptodactylydae — Lutz, 1954, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 52: 172.

Leptodactyloidea — Reig, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 29.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Extreme southern Texas (USA), Sonora (Mexico), and northern Antilles, south to Brazil.

Comment

Subfamily reformulated by Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, as the sister taxon of Leiuperinae + Paratelmatobiinae.

Contained taxa (96 sp.):

Adenomera Steindachner, 1867 (18 sp.)

Hydrolaetare Gallardo, 1963 (3 sp.)

Leptodactylus Fitzinger, 1826 (74 sp.)

Lithodytes Fitzinger, 1843 (1 sp.)

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