Pseudis Wagler, 1830

FAIVOVICH, JULIÁN, HADDAD, CÉLIO F. B., GARCIA, PAULO C. A., FROST, DARREL R., CAMPBELL, JONATHAN A. & WHEELER, WARD C., 2005, Systematic Review Of The Frog Family Hylidae, With Special Reference To Hylinae: Phylogenetic Analysis And Taxonomic Revision, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (294), pp. 1-240 : 93-94

Pseudis Wagler, 1830

TYPE SPECIES: Rana paradoxa Linnaeus,

1758, by monotypy.

Batrachychthys Pizarro, 1876. Type species: not designated; based on larvae of Pseudis paradoxa (Linnaeus, 1758) , according to Caramaschi and Cruz (1998).

DIAGNOSIS: This genus is diagnosed by 28 transformations in nuclear and mitochondrial proteins and ribosomal genes. See appendix 5 for a complete list of these transformations. We are not aware of any morphological synapomorphy for this genus.

COMMENTS: Garda et al. (2004) distinguished Lysapsus and Pseudis on the basis of the ultrastructure of the sperm acrosome complex, but they stated that the morphology present in Lysapsus (near absence of subacrosomal cone) is the apomorphic condition, with only the plesiomorphic condition being found in Pseudis and therefore not providing evidence of its monophyly.

CONTENTS: Six species. Pseudis bolbodactyla A. Lutz, 1925 ; Pseudis cardosoi Kwet, 2000 ; Pseudis fusca Garman, 1883 ; Pseudis minuta Günther, 1858 ; Pseudis paradoxa (Linnaeus, 1758) ; Pseudis tocantins Caramaschi and Cruz, 1998 .