| Rhinophrynidae Temporal range: Late Jurassic to present, 155.7–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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| Juvenile Rhinophrynus dorsalis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Clade: | Pipoidea |
| Family: | Rhinophrynidae Günther, 1859 |
| Type genus | |
| Rhinophrynus Duméril and Bibron, 1841 | |
The Rhinophrynidae are a family of frogs containing one extant genus, the monotypic Rhinophrynus, and a number of fossil genera. The family is sometimes known as the Mexican burrowing toads or simply burrowing toads.
Rhinophrynus occurs in the Central America north from Costa Rica to Mexico and Texas. Fossil finds of Rhinophrynidae come from Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Rhinophrynus is a burrowing ant and termite eater.
Systematics
The Rhinophrynidae are the sister taxon of the Pipidae. The clade formed by these two genera is sometimes referred to as Xenoanura or superfamily Pipoidea.
Genera
Extant genera:
- Rhinophrynus or Mexican burrowing toad Late Eocene-Recent
Fossil genera:
- †Chelomophrynus Henrici 1991 Wagon Bed Formation, Wyoming United States, Eocene
- †Eorhinophrynus Hecht 1959 Polecat Bench Formation, Wyoming, United States, Paleocene
- †Rhadinosteus Henrici 1998 Morrison Formation, Utah, United States, Late Jurassic
The affinity of Eorhinophrynus is uncertain.
References
- ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Rhinophrynidae Günther, 1859". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
- ^ "Rhinophrynidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. . Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
- ^ Blackburn, D.C.; Wake, D.B. (2011). "Class Amphibia Gray, 1825. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3148: 39–55. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.8.
- ^ Vitt, Laurie J.; Caldwell, Janalee P. (2014). Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles (4th ed.). Academic Press. p. 476.
- ^ "Family Rhinophrynidae (burrowing toad)". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- Ford, Linda S.; Cannatella, David C. (1993). "The major clades of frogs". Herpetological Monographs. 7: 94–117. doi:10.2307/1466954. JSTOR 1466954.
- Blackburn, David C.; Roberts, Lauren; Vallejo-Pareja, María C.; Stanley, Edward L. (2019-12-05). "First Record of the Anuran Family Rhinophrynidae from the Oligocene of Eastern North America". Journal of Herpetology. 53 (4): 316. doi:10.1670/19-044. ISSN 0022-1511.
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| Rhinophrynidae | |