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Scaphiopodidae

Osteichthyes - Temnospondyli - Scaphiopodidae

Taxonomy
Scaphiopodidae is a family. It is extant. Its type is Scaphiopus.

It was considered an invalid subgroup of Pelobatidae by Zweifel (1956).

It was assigned to Arcifera by Cope (1875); and to Pelobatoidea by Chen et al. (2016).

Subtaxa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1875Scaphiopidae Cope p. 10
2016Scaphiopodidae Chen et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
RankNameAuthor
Tetrapoda
classAmphibia
orderTemnospondyli()
Lissamphibia()
Batrachia(Macartney 1802)
orderSalientia
suborderAnura()
superfamilyPelobatoideaLaurent 1979
familyScaphiopodidae
familyScaphiopodidae

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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G. †Prospea Chen et al. 2016
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Prospea holoserisca Chen et al. 2016
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available