Pelodytidae

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Pelodytidae Temporal range: Early Eocene–recent, 50–0 Ma^[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

Pelodytes punctatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Superfamily:	Pelobatoidea
Family:	Pelodytidae Bonaparte, 1850
Type genus
Pelodytes Bonaparte, 1838
Synonyms^[2]
Pelodytina Bonaparte, 1850 Pelodytides — Bruch, 1862 Pelodytidae — Cope, 1866 Pelodytinae — Fejérváry, 1923

Pelodytidae, also known as the parsley frogs, or rarely, mud divers, is a family of frogs. It contains a single extant genus, Pelodytes,^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] and three genera only known from fossils.^[1]^[4] The extant species are found in southwestern Europe and the Caucasus.^[2]^[3]^[5]

Genera

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Pelodytes Bonaparte, 1838 – 5 species, southwestern Europe and the Caucasus^[2]^[3]
†Aerugoamnis Henrici, Baez & Grande, 2013 – 1 species, North America^[6]
†Miopelodytes Taylor, 1941 – 1 species, North America^[7]
†Tephrodytes Henrici, 1994 – 1 species, North America^[8]

Evolutionary relationships

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Most recent studies suggests that Pelodytidae belongs to a clade containing three other families: Pelobatidae, Scaphiopodidae, and Megophryidae.^[4]^[5] Its sister taxon is the clade Pelobatidae+Megophryidae,^[2]^[5] although older studies have suggested also other relationships.^[2]

Description

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Modern pelodytids are moderately small frogs measuring 30–55 mm (1.2–2.2 in) in snout–vent length. The eyes have rounded but vertically oriented pupils. The finger and the toe tips are blunt to pointed. The tadpoles have keratinized mouthparts. The family is also characterized by a number of anatomical and sceletal features,^[5] including the fusion of the tibiale and fibulare that have been used to include the fossil taxa Miopelodytes and Tephrodytes in this family.^[4]

References

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^ ^a ^b "Pelodytidae Cope 1866". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Frost, Darrel R. (2020). "Pelodytidae Bonaparte, 1850". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1. American Museum of Natural History. doi:10.5531/db.vz.0001. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Pelodytidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2020. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Blackburn, D.C. & Wake, D.B. (2011). "Class Amphibia Gray, 1825. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3148: 39–55. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.8.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Vitt, Laurie J. & Caldwell, Janalee P. (2014). Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles (4th ed.). Academic Press. pp. 478–479.
^ Henrici, Amy C.; Báez, Ana M.; Grande, Lance (2013). "Aerugoamnis paulus , New Genus and New Species (Anura: Anomocoela): First Reported Anuran from the Early Eocene (Wasatchian) Fossil Butte Member of the Green River Formation, Wyoming". Annals of Carnegie Museum. 81 (4): 295–309. doi:10.2992/007.081.0402. ISSN 0097-4463.
^ "†Miopelodytes Taylor 1941". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
^ "†Tephrodytes Henrici 1994". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

Taxon identifiers
Pelodytidae	Wikidata: Q3374519 Wikispecies: Pelodytidae ASW: Pelodytidae BOLD: 101500 CoL: 6264W EoL: 7508 Fauna Europaea: 15542 Fauna Europaea (new): 6e77641e-c706-4448-80d0-6dbb62a63eb7 GBIF: 3091 iNaturalist: 25314 IRMNG: 103653 ITIS: 208070 NBN: NHMSYS0000375995 NCBI: 43540 Open Tree of Life: 509554 Paleobiology Database: 37455

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