Pseudopaludicola Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Leptodactylidae > Subfamily: Leiuperinae > Genus: Pseudopaludicola
27 species

Pseudopaludicola Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 27: 152. Type species: Liuperus falcipes Hensel, 1867, by monotypy.

Common Names

Dwarf Swamp Frogs (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 92).

Swamp Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 84).

Distribution

Northern and central South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Guiana, southwestern Surinam, northeastern Peru, eastern Bolivia, Paraguay, much of Brazil and northern eastern and central Argentina and Uruguay.

Comment

Closely related to Physalaemus and Pleurodema, according to Cei, 1980, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Monogr., 2: 410. See comment under Physalaemus. Species reviewed by Lynch, 1989, Copeia, 1989: 577–588, who defined and discussed phylogenetic relationships within the monophyletic Pseudopaludicola pusilla group noted in the accounts below. See Lobo, 1995, Cuad. Herpetol., 9: 21–43, for a phylogenetic analysis and key. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543–583, suggested that Pseudopaludicola is the sister taxon of remaining leiuperines. Alcalde and Barrasso, 2013, Amphibia-Reptilia, 34: 129–135, compared the internal larval anatomy of Pseudopaludicola boliviana and Pseudopaludicola falcipes. Veiga-Menoncello, Lourenço, Strüssmann, Rossa-Feres, Andrade, Giaretta, and Recco-Pimentel, 2014, Zool. Scripta, 43: 261–272, employing a molecular dataset recovered the Pseudopaludicola as monophyletic, organized into four major clades and corroborated the previous morphological proposal that the assemblage of species that lack a T-form phalange is paraphyletic in relation to the Pseudopaludicola pusilla group. Cardozo, Boeris, Ferro, Borteiro, Kolenc, Suárez, Netto, Brusquetti, and Baldo, 2016, Salamandra, 52: 11–22, reported on karyological evolution within the genus. Grosso, Baldo, Cardozo, Kolenc, Borteiro, Oliveira, Bonino, Barrasso, and Vera Candioti, 2019, PLoS One, 14(6: e0218733): 1–37, reported on the phylogenetics and ontogenetics of early larval development in the genus. Andrade, Haga, Lyra, Carvalho, Haddad, Giaretta, and Toledo, 2020, Eur. J. Taxon., 679: 1–36, reported on molecular phylogenetics within the genus and call and morphological differences among the species close to Pseudopaludicola canga. 

Contained taxa (27 sp.):

Pseudopaludicola ameghini (Cope, 1887)
Pseudopaludicola atragula Pansonato, Mudrek, Veiga-Menoncello, Rossa-Feres, Martins, and Strüssmann, 2014
Pseudopaludicola boliviana Parker, 1927
Pseudopaludicola canga Giaretta and Kokubum, 2003
Pseudopaludicola ceratophyes Rivero and Serna, 1985
Pseudopaludicola chimaera Silva, Haga, Painkow, Dantas, Varago, Garda, Kohlsdorf, and Andrade, 2025 "2024"
Pseudopaludicola coracoralinae Andrade, Haga, Lyra, Carvalho, Haddad, Giaretta, and Toledo, 2020
Pseudopaludicola facureae Andrade and Carvalho, 2013
Pseudopaludicola falcipes (Hensel, 1867)
Pseudopaludicola florencei Andrade, Haga, Lyra, Leite, Kwet, Haddad, Toledo, and Giaretta, 2018
Pseudopaludicola giarettai Carvalho, 2012
Pseudopaludicola hyleaustralis Pansonato, Morais, Ávila, Kawashita-Ribeiro, Strussmann, and Martins, 2012
Pseudopaludicola ibisoroca Pansonato, Veiga-Menoncello, Mudrek, Jansen, Recco-Pimentel, Martins, and Strüssmann, 2016
Pseudopaludicola jaredi Andrade, Magalhães, Nunes-de-Almeida, Veiga-Menoncello, Santana, Garda, Loebmann, Recco-Pimentel, Giaretta, and Toledo, 2016
Pseudopaludicola javae Silva, Andrade, Painkow, Dantas, Haga, and Garda, 2023
Pseudopaludicola jazmynmcdonaldae Andrade, Silva, Koroiva, Fadel, and Santana, 2019
Pseudopaludicola llanera Lynch, 1989
Pseudopaludicola matuta Andrade, Haga, Lyra, Carvalho, Haddad, Giaretta, and Toledo, 2018
Pseudopaludicola mineira Lobo, 1994
Pseudopaludicola motorzinho Pansonato, Veiga-Menoncello, Mudrek, Jansen, Recco-Pimentel, Martins, and Strüssmann, 2016
Pseudopaludicola murundu Toledo, Siqueira, Duarte, Veiga-Menoncello, Recco-Pimentel, and Haddad, 2010
Pseudopaludicola mystacalis (Cope, 1887)
Pseudopaludicola pocoto Magalhães, Loebmann, Kokubum, Haddad, and Garda, 2014
Pseudopaludicola pusilla (Ruthven, 1916)
Pseudopaludicola restinga Cardozo, Baldo, Pupin, Gasparini, and Haddad, 2018
Pseudopaludicola saltica (Cope, 1887)
Pseudopaludicola ternetzi Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937

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