Odontobatrachus [SEP] parent taxon
Odontobatrachus
Odontobatrachus is a genus of frogs in the comprising the family Odontobatrachidae. In a 2014 research project Barej, Rödel, Loader & Schmitz separated the genus from the established genus "Petropedetes" and separated the new family from the established family Petropedetidae.
Taxonomy and affinities.
The species had originally been assigned to the genus "Petropedetes" in the Petropedetidae, a family of so-called torrent frogs of Africa, so the type species is "Petropedetes natator" Boulenger, 1905. However, recent morphological and genomic
Petropedetidae differ from "Odontobatrachus" in several ways, including that they lack tusks on the mandibles and that they either lack vocal sacs, or, if they have one it is median; "Odontobatrachus" has lateral vocal sacs.
Species.
- "Odontobatrachus arndti" Barej "et al.", 2015
- "Odontobatrachus fouta" Barej "et al.", 2015
- "Odontobatrachus natator" (Boulenger, 1905)
- "Odontobatrachus smithi" Barej "et al.", 2015