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Topic: Arthroleptidae

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	Amphibian Species of the World - Astylosternidae Noble, 1927 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		See comments under Arthroleptidae (of which this taxon is regarded as subfamily by some authors), and Hyperoliidae, for discussion of meanderings in nomenclatural rank and hypothesized systematic relationships.
		Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 225-284, considered the Astylosterninae to be a subfamily of his newly constituted Arthroleptidae.
		Lyon, 61: 352, subsequently elevated the rank of this taxon to family from a subfamily under the Arthroleptidae.
	research.amnh.org /herpetology/amphibia/references.php?id=408 (194 words)

	Amphibian Species of the World - Arthroleptidae Mivart, 1869 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 259 (who discussed family-group nomenclature and provided a new taxonomy), the Arthroleptinae and Astylosterninae were included in either the Ranidae or Hyperoliidae (even though Arthroleptidae is an older family-group name than Hyperoliidae).
		Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 259, included the Arthroleptinae with the Astylosterninae in his paraphyletic Arthroleptidae, and excluded the Hyperoliidae and Hemisotidae.
		Lyon, 61: 305-352, changed the rank of these taxa from subfamilies to families (Arthroleptidae, Astylosternidae, and Hyperoliidae), apparently to deal with the possible paraphyly of Arthroleptidae sensu Dubois, 1987, 1992 (fide Ford and Cannatella, 1993, Herpetol.
	research.amnh.org /herpetology/amphibia/references.php?f_id=3 (435 words)

	Contemporary Herpetology 2000 Number 2: Wilkinson and Drewes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The family is part of the neobatrachian clade Ranoidea, which also includes the families Ranidae, Hyperoliidae, Dendrobatidae, Arthroleptidae, the genus Hemisus, and possibly the family Microhylidae.
		The Ranoidea clade is distinguished from other neobatrachians by the synapomorphic characters of completely fused epicoracoid cartilages, the medial end of the coracoid being wider than the lateral end, and the insertion of the semitendinosus tendon being dorsal to the m.
		Also, Hyperoliidae formed a clade with Arthroleptidae based on the synapomorphy of the thyrohyals abutting onto cartilaginous stalks of the hyoid plate.
	www.calacademy.org /research/herpetology/ch/ch/2000/2 (11804 words)

	Arthroleptidae
		The last two of these are questionable (see account under "Ranidae").
		Ford and Cannatella (1993) treated Arthroleptidae* as a metataxon and did not provide a phylogenetic definition, because no synapomorphies of the group are known.
		If you are interested in authoring or co-authoring the page for this taxon, or some part of it (even a species), contact David Cannatella.
	tolweb.org /tree?group=Arthroleptidae&contgroup=Neobatrachia (296 words)

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