Myobatrachoidea
Myobatrachoidea | |
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Limnodynastes interioris | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Clade: | Australobatrachia |
Superfamily: | Myobatrachoidea Schlegel, 1850 |
Families | |
Myobatrachoidea is a superfamily of frogs. It contains two families, both of which are found in Australia, New Guinea, and the Aru Islands. Some sources group these two families into a single family Myobatrachidae.[1]
Their closest relatives are thought to be the Calyptocephalellidae of southern South America, from which they diverged during the mid-Cretaceous (about 100 million years ago). Together, they comprise the clade Australobatrachia; their common ancestor is thought to have inhabited South America, with the ancestors of Myobatrachoidea dispersing to Australasia during the Cretaceous via (then ice-free) Antarctica.[2] Both families within Myobatrachoidea are thought to have diverged from each other during the Late Cretaceous or during the earliest Paleocene (immediately after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event).[3]
Taxonomy
[edit]Myobatrachoidea contains the following families:[1]
- Limnodynastidae Lynch, 1969 - 44 species
- Myobatrachidae Schlegel, 1850 - 91 species
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Myobatrachoidea Schlegel, 1850 | Amphibian Species of the World". research.amnh.org. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
- ^ Mörs, Thomas; Reguero, Marcelo; Vasilyan, Davit (2020-04-23). "First fossil frog from Antarctica: implications for Eocene high latitude climate conditions and Gondwanan cosmopolitanism of Australobatrachia". Scientific Reports. 10 (1): 5051. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-61973-5. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 7181706. PMID 32327670. S2CID 216085718.
- ^ Feng, Yan-Jie; Blackburn, David C.; Liang, Dan; Hillis, David M.; Wake, David B.; Cannatella, David C.; Zhang, Peng (2017-07-18). "Phylogenomics reveals rapid, simultaneous diversification of three major clades of Gondwanan frogs at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114 (29). doi:10.1073/pnas.1704632114. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 5530686. PMID 28673970.