Discoglossidae Günther

BEUKEMA, WOUTER, DE POUS, PHILIP, DONAIRE-BARROSO, DAVID, BOGAERTS, SERGÉ, GARCIA-PORTA, JOAN, ESCORIZA, DANIEL, ARRIBAS, OSCAR J., MOUDEN, EL HASSAN EL & CARRANZA, SALVADOR, 2013, 3661, Zootaxa 3661 (1), pp. 1-60 : 33

Family Discoglossidae Günther

Divergence between Alytes and Discoglossus Otth 1837 , hitherto grouped in the Alytidae , took place according to most recent estimations during the Late Jurassic ( Bossuyt & Roelants 2009) or Cretaceous ( Blackburn et al. 2010). Conclusively, Bossuyt and Roelants (2009) suggested reinstatement of the Discoglossidae in recognition of the long separate evolutionary history of the latter genus. We herein follow this suggestion, which was also adopted by Pyron and Wiens (2011).