Pelodryadidae Günther, 1859

Donnellan, Stephen C., Mahony, Michael J., Esquerré, Damien, Brennan, Ian G., Price, Luke C., Lemmon, Alan, Lemmon, Emily Moriarty, Günther, Rainer, Monis, Paul, Bertozzi, Terry, Keogh, J. Scott, Shea, Glenn M. & Richards, Stephen J., 2025, Phylogenomics informs a generic revision of the Australo-Papuan treefrogs (Anura: Pelodryadidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204 : -

Family Pelodryadidae Günther, 1859

Duellman et al. (2006) provided a definition for the family. Faivovich et al. (2010) discussed the lack of formal evidence for the monophyly of the pelodryadine frogs based on the limited range of species represented in molecular phylogenetic studies to that time and the absence of a morphological diagnosis. Elias-Costa et al. (2021) discussed the evolution of submandibular musculature in Anura and provided morphological synapomorphies for the Pelodryadidae , for which Faivovich et al. (2011) had previously defined the homology of structures for these muscles. Bossuyt and Roelants (2009) considered that the pelodryadine frogs should be regarded as a distinct family based on the age of their divergence from their sister lineage the Phyllomedusidae , while Dubois et al. (2021) argued for sub-family status on the basis of fitting a rank-based classification to a hypothesis of phylogenetic relationships, generated largely from mitochondrial DNA nucleotide sequences. Our comprehensive molecular phylogenetic analyses demonstrate the monophyly of the pelodryadine frogs and Hime et al.

719 TTCTTTTCC

711 CCCCGCCCC

701 AATATTATA

T

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678 CCTTTTCCC

675 AAAAAAAGA

641 TTTTTTTCC

639 AAAAAAATA

616 TCTTCCTAT

615 AAAGAATAA

614 AATTGTCTG

611 CCCCTACCG

552 AAAAAAAAA

T /

551 AATAAAAAC

G /

548 AGGATAAGA

543 AAAAAGAGG

530 CTTTTTATT

494 AAAAAAAAA

G /

491 AAAGAAAAA

472 TTTCTCCTC

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(2021) provide robust phylogenomic evidence of the relationships of the Pelodryadidae with other hyloid families.