| Strabomantidae | |
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| Noblella pygmaea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Clade: | Brachycephaloidea |
| Family: | Strabomantidae Hedges, Duellman & Heinicke, 2008 |
The Strabomantidae, sometimes called cloud forest landfrogs, are a family of frogs native to South America. These frogs lack a free-living larval stage and hatch directly into miniature "froglets".[1][2] This family includes Pristimantis, the most speciose genus of any vertebrate.[3] Based on molecular dating, the Holoadeninae in particular appears to have originated in the Eocene.[4] The Oligocene-Miocene transition was also found to be important to their biogeographical history.[4] However, the lack of Holoadeninae fossils and limited nucleotide data ambiguates the results, by the authors' admission.[4]
- ^ Lehr, Edgar; Catenazzi, Alessandro (2009). "A New Species of Minute Noblella (Anura: Strabomantidae) from Southern Peru: The Smallest Frog of the Andes". Copeia. 2009: 148–156. doi:10.1643/CH-07-270. S2CID 86120577.
- ^ "AmphibiaWeb – Strabomantidae".
- ^ "Pristimantis Jiménez de la Espada, 1870 | Amphibian Species of the World". amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
- ^ a b c Chaves, Júlio C. M.; Hepp, Fábio; Schrago, Carlos G.; Mello, Beatriz (2 October 2024). "A time-calibrated phylogeny of the diversification of Holoadeninae frogs". Frontiers in Bioinformatics. 4. doi:10.3389/fbinf.2024.1441373. ISSN 2673-7647. PMC 11480671.