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Indobatrachus pusillus

Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Calyptocephalellidae

Taxonomy
Rana pusilla was named by Owen (1847) [type not numbered]. It is a compression preserving soft parts. Its type locality is Island of Bombay, which is in a Paleocene fluvial-lacustrine shale in India. It is the type species of Indobatrachus.

It was recombined as Oxyglossus pusillus by Stoliczka (1869); it was recombined as Indobatrachus pusillus by Noble (1930) and Verma (1965).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1847Rana pusilla Owen p. 224
1869Oxyglossus pusillus Stoliczka
1930Indobatrachus pusillus Noble p. 2
1965Indobatrachus pusillus Verma p. 182

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
Lissamphibia()
Batrachia(Macartney 1802)
orderSalientia
orderAnura()
Neobatrachia(Reig 1958)
AustralobatrachiaFrost et al. 2006
familyCalyptocephalellidaeReig 1960
genusIndobatrachus
speciespusillus()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available