Alytes

For the same name scientific journal, see ISSN 0753-4973.

Familia: Alytidae
Genus:
Species (6): A. almogavarii – A. cisternasii – A. dickhilleni – A. maurus – A. muletensis – A. obstetricans

Alytes Wagler, 1830: 206

• Type species: Bufo obstetricans Laurenti, 1768, by monotypy.

• Obstreticans Dugès, 1834: 7
  • Type species: Bufo obstetricans Laurenti, 1768, by tautonomy.
• Ammoryctis Lataste, 1879: 983
  • Type species: Alytes cisternasii Boscá, 1879, by monotypy.
• Baleaphryne Sanchíz & Adrover, 1979: 6
  • Type species: Baleaphryne muletensis Sanchíz & Adrover, 1977, by original designation.

• Wagler, J.G. 1830. Natürliches System der Amphibien, mit vorangehender Classification der Säugetiere und Vögel. Ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Zoologie. J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung: München, Stuttgart, & Tübingen. 354 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Sanchíz, F.B. & Adrover, R. 1979. Anfibios fósiles del Pleistoceno de Mallorca. Doñana Acta Vertebrata 4(1–2): 5—25. Reference page. 

• Arntzen, J.W. & García-París, M. 1995. Morphological and allozyme studies of midwife toads (genus Alytes), including the description of two new taxa from Spain. Contributions to Zoology 65(1): 5–34. DOI: 10.1163/26660644-06501002 Reference page. 
• Fromhage, L., Vences, M. & Veith, M. 2004. Testing alternative vicariance scenarios in Western Mediterranean discoglossid frogs. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31(1): 308–322. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2003.07.009 Reference page. 
• Martínez-Solano, I., Gonçalves, H., Arntzen, J.W. & García-París, M. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of midwife toads (Discoglossidae: Alytes). Journal of Biogeography 31(4): 603–618. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2003.01033.x Reference page. 
• Gonçalves, H., Martínez-Solano, I., Ferrand, N. & García-París, M. 2007. Conflicting phylogenetic signal of nuclear vs mitochondrial DNA markers in midwife toads (Anura, Discoglossidae, Alytes): deep coalescence or ancestral hybridization? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44(1): 494–500. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.03.001 Reference page. 

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