Multi-locus phylogeny and taxonomic revision of Uperoleia toadlets (Anura: Myobatrachidae) from the western arid zone of Australia, with a description of a new species
Author
Catullo, Renee A.
Author
Doughty, Paul
Author
Roberts, Dale
Author
Keogh, Scott
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Zootaxa
2011
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journal article
46776
10.5281/zenodo.201835
99b5725c-aaa4-4c71-82d4-4a1d49aba2a8
1175-5326
201835
Uperoleia
Gray, 1841
Uperoleia
Gray, 1841
, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 1, 7: 90.
Hyperoleia
Agassiz, 1846, Nomencl. Zool., Fasc. 12: 384. Unjustified emendation.
Glauertia
Loveridge, 1933
, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8: 89.
Type
species:
Glauertia russelli
Loveridge, 1933
, by monotypy. Synonymy by
Tyler
et. al.
1981
, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 29 (79): 9.
Hosmeria
Wells and Wellington, 1985
, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 2.
Type
species:
Uperoleia marmorata laevigata
Keferstein, 1867
, by original designation.
Prohartia
Wells and Wellington, 1985
, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3.
Type
species:
Pseudophryne fimbrianus
Parker, 1926
, by original designation.
Type
species:
U. marmorata
, by monotypy.
Diagnosis.
A group of small-bodied (to
41 mm
) terrestrial frogs with short limbs, no webbing on fingers, first finger shorter than second, inner metatarsal tubercle not compressed, lacking vomerine teeth, covered tympana, pupil rhomboidal, parotoid, dorsolateral/inguinal and coccygeal glands usually present, males with unilobular submandibular vocal sac and unpigmented nuptial pads, aquatic reproduction with small pigmented eggs and free-swimming larvae (
Tyler
et al.
1981
). Cloacal flap present, moderately fimbriated in males and strongly fimbriated in females.
Other genera in synonymy.
Uperoleia
are morphologically conservative and monophyly is not in question based on morphological (
Tyler
et al
., 1981
) or molecular data (
Read
et al
., 2001
;
Frost
et al
., 2006
, this study).
Parker (1940)
indicated
Hyperoleia
was an unjustified emendation of
Uperoleia
. There are no compelling reasons to recognize further genera within this clade. Therefore we maintain the synonymy of
Glauertia
by
Tyler
et. al.
(1981)
and tranfer
Hosmeria
and
Prohartia
to the synonymy of
Uperoleia
.