Systematic Review of the Frog Family Hylidae, With Special Reference to Hylinae: Phylogenetic Analysis and Taxonomic Revision

Phylogeny and biogeography of paradoxical frogs (Anura, Hylidae, Pseudae) inferred from 12S and 16S mitochondrial DNA

“…da Silva's (1998) morphological phylogenetic analysis placed pseudids within Hylidae, and subsequent mitochondrial and nuclear DNA phylogenies have strongly supported this arrangement (Darst and Cannatella, 2004;Faivovich et al, 2005;Hoegg et al, 2004;Wiens et al, 2005). However, the newest taxonomies (Faivovich et al, 2005;Frost et al, 2006) abandoned the names Pseudinae or Pseudidae because they render the more inclusive rank name (Hylidae or Hylinae) paraphyletic. We feel it is informative to refer to this wellsupported clade by a single taxon name, and thus we use the name Pseudae Fitzinger 1843.…”

“…We also included five sequences from Argentine populations (Faivovich et al, 2005) and one from an additional Brazilian population (Darst and Cannatella, 2004) from GenBank. Morphological and molecular phylogenetic reconstructions consistently recovered Scarthyla goinorum as the sister group to Pseudis and Lysapsus (da Silva, 1998;Darst and Cannatella, 2004;Faivovich et al, 2005;Wiens et al, 2005), and therefore we included two S. goinorum sequences from GenBank as outgroups. Museum numbers, field numbers, and localities are listed in Table 1, and localities where samples were collected appear in Fig.…”

“…Partial surveys of external morphology (Caramaschi and da Cruz, 1998;Klappenbach, 1985;Savage and de Carvalho, 1953), sperm ultrastructure (Garda et al, 2004), and molecular data (Faivovich et al, 2005) were available for some species, and tentative synapomorphies were presented in these assessments. Faivovich et al (2005) argued that current data do not unambiguously separate the two genera and that their monophyly warrants corroboration. Based on carpal tubercles, Caramaschi and da Cruz (1998) considered P. bolbodactyla, P. fusca, and P. tocantins to form a clade (with reduced or vestigial tubercles), differing from P. paradoxa subspecies (with well developed carpal tubercles).…”

Amphibians crossing the Bering Land Bridge: Evidence from holarctic treefrogs (Hyla, Hylidae, Anura)

“…Following the taxonomical redefinition of Faivovich et al (2005) and Hua et al (2009), the genus Hyla is distributed in central and southern Europe, eastern Asia, northwest Africa and North America, comprising 35 currently recognised species (Frost, 2014) (Fig. 1).…”

“…Hyla is the only hylid genus considered to have colonized the Palearctic realm out of the New World, with most authors favoring dispersal through Beringia (e.g., Anderson, 1991;Faivovich et al, 2005;Smith et al, 2005;Wiens et al, 2005). Nearctic and Palearctic species separate at the root of the genus, except for some species from northeastern Asia (H. japonica, H. immaculata) that nest phylogenetically between Nearctic species of Hyla, implying that Eurasian Hyla originated from two independent dispersal events from the Nearctic (Faivovich et al, 2005;Hua et al, 2009;Lemmon et al, 2007;Smith et al, 2005Smith et al, , 2007.…”