Neblinaphrynidae Fouquet, Kok, Recoder, Prates, Camacho, Marques-Souza, Ghellere, McDiarmid, and Rodrigues, 2023

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Neblinaphrynidae
2 species

Neblinaphrynidae Fouquet, Kok, Recoder, Prates, Camacho, Marques-Souza, Ghellere, McDiarmid, and Rodrigues, 2023, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 191 (107971): 7. Type genus: Neblinaphryne Fouquet, Kok, Recoder, Prates, Camacho, Marques-Souza, Ghellere, McDiarmid, and Rodrigues, 2023, by original designation. Zoobank publication registration: C9F5D269-2F92-4A4D-88A4-AB652131B56D

Common Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Neblina massif, Venezuela, and the adjacent Serra do Imeri, Brazil. 

Comment

Molecular markers, which place this as the sister taxon of all brachycephaloids with the exception of Ceuthomantidae, and comparative morphology detailed in the original publication. 

Contained taxa (2 sp.):

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