Aparasphenodon Miranda­Ribeiro, 1920

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 : 108

Aparasphenodon Miranda­Ribeiro, 1920

TYPE SPECIES: Aparasphenodon brunoi

Miranda­Ribeiro, 1920, by monotypy.

DIAGNOSIS: For the purposes of this paper we consider that the 83 transformations in nuclear and mitochondrial protein and ribosomal genes autapomorphic of Aparasphenodon brunoi are synapomorphies of this genus. See appendix 5 for a complete list of these molecular synapomorphies. A possible morphological synapomorphy of this genus is the presence of a prenasal bone (Trueb, 1970a.)

COMMENTS: We included a single species of this genus, and as such we did not test its monophyly, but we consider it possible based on the morphological evidence mentioned above.

CONTENTS: Three species. Aparasphenodon bokermanni Pombal, 1993 ; Aparasphenodon brunoi Miranda­Ribeiro, 1920 ; Aparasphenodon venezolanus (Mertens, 1950) .