Hemisus
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| Clasificación científica | |
| Reino: | Animalia |
| Filo: | Chordata |
| Clase: | Amphibia |
| Orden: | Anura |
| Familia: | Hemisotidae Cope, 1867 |
| Género: | Hemisus Günther, 1859 |
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Hemisus es un género de anfibios anuros compuesto por nueve especies endémicas de África. Es el único género dentro de la familia Hemisotidae. El grupo forma un clado (Afrobatrachia) que incluye a las familias Brevicipitidae, Hyperoliidae y Arthroleptidae.[1] [2] [3] [4]
[editar] Referencias
- ↑ Darst, C. R. & Canatella, D. C. (2003) Novel relationships among hyloid frogs inferred from 12S and 16S mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31, 462-475.
- ↑ Bossuyt, F. et al. (2006) Phylogeny and biogeography of a cosmopolitan frog radiation: Late Cretaceous diversification resulted in continent-scale endemism in the family Ranidae. Systematic Biology 55, 579-594.
- ↑ Van der Meijden, A. et al. (2003) Molecular phylogeny of hyperoliid treefrogs: biogeographic origin of Malagasy and Seychellean taxa and re-analysis of familial paraphyly. Journal of Zoological, Systematic and Evolutionary Research 41, 205-215.
- ↑ Frost, D. R. et al. (2006). The Amphibian Tree of Life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–291.
[editar] Bibliografía
- Zweifel, Robert G. (1998). in Cogger, H.G. & Zweifel, R.G.: Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians. San Diego: Academic Press, 101-102. ISBN 0-12-178560-2.
- Cogger, H.G.; R.G. Zweifel, and D. Kirschner (2004). Encyclopedia of Reptiles & Amphibians Second Edition. Fog City Press. ISBN 1-877019-69-0.
- Frost, Darrel R. 2008. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.2 (15 July, 2008). Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.
