Family PELODRYADIDAE Günther, 1859
Compiler and date details
August 2012 - P. Horner, Queensland (updated)
Novemebr 2022 - ABRS
- Pelodryadidae Günther, A. 1858. Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xvi 160 pp. [119].
Type genus:
Pelodryas Günther, 1859.
Introduction
A large family of frogs found throughout most of the tropical and temperate regions of the world. Usually termed tree frogs because many species possess sticky discs on the tips of their fingers and toes which make them agile climbers. The family contains about 640 species in 40 genera of which 77 species and three genera occur in Australia. Proposals to recognise a regional family, the Pelodryadidae, to accommodate the Australasian forms, have not gained widespread acceptance.
Following from Duellman et al. (2016) and the Australian Herpetological Society we recognise Pelodryadidae for Australian frogs previously placed in the family Hylidae.
Diagnosis
Characterised in Australia by: arciferal pectoral girdle; intercalary cartilages usually present; finger and toe discs usually present, though sometimes very poorly developed; sacral diapophyses dilated; maxillary teeth present.
General References
Brattstrom, B.H. 1970. Thermal acclimation in Australian amphibians. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 35: 69-103
Copland, S.J. 1957. Presidential address. Australian tree frogs of the genus Hyla. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 82: 9-108
Duellman, W.E., Marion, A.B. & Hedges, S.B. 2016. Phylogenetics, classification, and biogeography of the treefrogs (Amphibia: Anura: Arboranae). Zootaxa 4104(1): 1–109
Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1-370 + Fig. 50 foldout [65, 130, 204]
Tyler, M.J. 1970. Patterns of distribution and the origins of the Papuan hylid frog fauna. Search 1: 246-247
Tyler, M.J. 1999. Australian Frogs. Sydney : Reed New Holland pp. 1-192.
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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04-Feb-2023 | AMPHIBIA | 08-Dec-2022 | MODIFIED | |
31-Jan-2017 | ANURA Fischer von Waldheim, 1813 | 29-Mar-2017 | MODIFIED | |
31-Jan-2017 | 13-Aug-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
12-Feb-2010 | (import) |