Pelodryadinae Explained
Pelodryadinae, also known as Australian treefrogs (although not all members are arboreal), is a subfamily of frogs found in the region of Australia and New Guinea, and have also been introduced to New Caledonia, Guam, New Zealand, and Vanuatu.[1]
The subfamily is thought to be the sister group to the leaf frogs (Phyllomedusinae), a subfamily of arboreal frogs known from the Neotropics. The common ancestor of both subfamilies is thought to have lived in early Cenozoic South America, with the two subfamilies diverging from one another during the Eocene. The ancestors of the subfamily Pelodryadinae likely invaded Australasia via Antarctica, which at the time was not yet frozen over, thus was hospitable for the dispersing frogs.[2] The clade comprising both subfamilies is sister to the Hylinae, from which they diverged in the early Paleogene.[3]
Classification
The subfamily contains 222 species in three genera:
External links
- http://www.tolweb.org/Pelodryadinae
Notes and References
- Web site: Pelodryadinae Günther, 1858 Amphibian Species of the World . 2022-08-26 . amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org.
- Duellman . William E. . Marion . Angela B. . Hedges . S. Blair . 2016-04-19 . Phylogenetics, classification, and biogeography of the treefrogs (Amphibia: Anura: Arboranae) . Zootaxa . en . 4104 . 1 . 1–109 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4104.1.1 . 27394762 . 1175-5334.
- 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 . en . 114 . 29 . E5864–E5870 . 10.1073/pnas.1704632114 . 0027-8424 . 28673970 . 5530686 . 2017PNAS..114E5864F . free.
