Pelobiinae Fitzinger, 1843
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4104.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5458546 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EA87A5-FF8D-120D-F398-8DC6306FF168 |
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Plazi |
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Pelobiinae Fitzinger, 1843 |
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Subfamily Pelobiinae Fitzinger, 1843
Pelobii Fitzinger, 1843:31 . Type genus: Pelobius Fitzinger, 1843 , by original designation.
Definition. At the present time no morphological characters are known that distinguish this subfamily from Pelodryadinae .
Content. One genus and at least 91 species.
Distribution. Northern and eastern Australia, New Guinea and associated islands, Solomon Islands, New Britain, Vanuatu, and Moluccas Islands and Seram Island in Indonesia.
Etymology. The familial name is based on the generic name Pelobius from the Greek pelos meaning earth and the Greek suffix binos meaning coming from. The type species of Pelobius is Litoria freycineti Tschudi, 1838 .
Remarks. Pelobiinae is the sister group to Pelodryadinae .
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
Pelobiinae Fitzinger, 1843
| Duellman, William E., Marion, Angela B. & Hedges, Blair 2016 |
Pelobius
| Fitzinger 1843 |