The DOI matches its Crossref record; 24 of the 24 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
The Major Clades of Frogs
Abstract
The relationships among the major lineages of frogs are summarized and an un- ranked, phylogenetic taxonomy of Anura is proposed. The names of taxa are defined according to phylogenetic principles. Several currently recognized taxa, such as Archaeobatrachia, Discoglos- soidea, Leiopelmatidae, and Discoglossidae are paraphyletic, and the names are abandoned or redefined such that the associated taxa are monophyletic. Node-based names are proposed for several unnamed but previously recognized taxa: Leiopelmatanura, Bombinanura, Discoglossanura, and Pipanura. Pipanura is the node-based name for Mesobatrachia and Neobatrachia. Mesobatrachia comprises Pelobatoidea and Pipoidea. Pelodytidae is defined as a stem-based name to accommodate certain fossil pelobatoid taxa. Rhinophrynus, Rhinophrynidae, and Pipimorpha are defined as stem- based names that accommodate fossils within Pipoidea. tEopelobatinae* is a metataxon. Relationships within Neobatrachia are largely unresolved. There is no evidence for the monophyly of Myobatrachidae, but Limnodynastinae and Myobatrachinae are each monophyletic. Sooglos- sidae appears most closely related to Myobatrachinae. Leptodactylidae and Ranidae are non- monophyletic groups. Scaphiophryninae* and Arthroleptidae* are metataxa. The name Scoptanura is used for the subclade of Microhylidae that excludes scaphiophrynines. Dendrobatidae, a taxon of controversial status, is placed within Ranoidea.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Duellman, W. (1994) · Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks · doi:10.56021/9780801847806 · Cited by 4,526
PAUP (phylogenetic analysis using parsimony)
(2008) · Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Informatics · doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6754-9_12413 · Cited by 4,412
Quantitative Phyletics and the Evolution of Anurans
Kluge, A. G., & Farris, J. S. (1969) · Systematic Biology · doi:10.1093/sysbio/18.1.1 · Cited by 2,855
Noble, G. K. (1931) · McGraw-Hill eBooks · doi:10.5962/bhl.title.82448 · Cited by 1,055
A METHOD FOR DEDUCING BRANCHING SEQUENCES IN PHYLOGENY
Camin, J. H., & Sokal, R. R. (1965) · Evolution · doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1965.tb01722.x · Cited by 808
Gingerich, P. D., Patterson, C., & Rosen, D. E. (1977) · Systematic Zoology · doi:10.2307/2412685 · Cited by 506
Amphibian species of the world
Duellman, W. E. (1993) · Cited by 457
A phylogenetic analysis of lepidosauromorpha
Gauthier, J., Estes, R., & de Queiroz, K. (1988) · reroDoc Digital Library · Cited by 234
Liem, S. S. (1970) · Field Museum of Natural History eBooks · doi:10.5962/bhl.title.2939 · Cited by 163
Evolution of parental care in dart poison frogs (Amphibia: Anura: Dendrobatidae)
Weygoldt, P. (2009) · Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research · doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.1987.tb00913.x · Cited by 151
Cited by
FROST, D. R., GRANT, T., FAIVOVICH, J., BAIN, R. H., HAAS, A., HADDAD, C. F. B., DE SÁ, R. O., CHANNING, A., WILKINSON, M., DONNELLAN, S. C., et al. (2006) · Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History · doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:tatol]2.0.co;2 · Cited by 1,922
GRANT, T., FROST, D. R., CALDWELL, J. P., GAGLIARDO, R., HADDAD, C. F. B., KOK, P. J. R., MEANS, D. B., NOONAN, B. P., SCHARGEL, W. E., & WHEELER, W. C. (2006) · Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History · doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)299[1:psodfa]2.0.co;2 · Cited by 578
Hylid Frog Phylogeny and Sampling Strategies for Speciose Clades
Wiens, J. J., Fetzner, J. W., Parkinson, C. L., & Reeder, T. W. (2005) · Systematic Biology · doi:10.1080/10635150500234625 · Cited by 405
Poux, C., Madsen, O., Marquard, E., Vieites, D. R., de Jong, W. W., & Vences, M. (2005) · Systematic Biology · doi:10.1080/10635150500234534 · Cited by 339
Multiple, recurring origins of aposematism and diet specialization in poison frogs
Santos, J. C., Coloma, L. A., & Cannatella, D. C. (2003) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.2133521100 · Cited by 305
Self-citation
Metadata
- Authors
- Ford, L. S., & Cannatella, D. C.
- Venue
- Herpetological Monographs
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1993
- Volume
- 7
- Pages
- 94
- ISSN
- 0733-1347 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2326289639
- Cited by
- 398
- References
- 24
- FWCI
- 16.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: The Major Clades of Frogs. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.2307/1466954
- The paper
- Ford, L. S., & Cannatella, D. C. (1993). The Major Clades of Frogs. Herpetological Monographs. https://doi.org/10.2307/1466954
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
