Belongs within: Neobatrachia.
Contains: Crinia, Uperoleia.
The Myobatrachidae are an Australian family of frogs whose tadpoles lack external gills (Cogger 2018).
Characters (Cogger 2018): Arciferal pectoral girdle; intercalary cartilages absent; finger and toe discs small or absent, without lateral grooves; sacral diapophyses more or less dilated; eight presacral vertebrae, the first two of which are fused; maxillary teeth present or absent; tadpoles lacking external gills.
<==Myobatrachidae [Australobatrachia, Myobatrachinae, Myobatrachoidea]
| i. s.: Kankanophryne Heyer & Liem 1976FKM82
| `--*K. occidentalisFKM82
| Indobatrachus Noble 1930RR00
| `--*I. pusillus (Owen 1847) [=Rana pusilla; incl. I. malabaricus Verma 1965, I. trivialis Chiplonker 1940]RR00
|--Rheobatrachus Liem 1973PW11, FG06 [Rheobatrachidae, Rheobatrachinae]
| |--R. silus Liem 1973C18
| `--R. vitellinus Mahony, Tyler & Davies 1984C18
`--+--Mixophyes Günther 1864PW11, FG06
| | i. s.: M. fleayi Corben & Ingram 1987C18
| | M. iteratus Straughan 1968C18
| |--M. balbus Straughan 1968PW11, C18
| `--+--+--M. carbinensis Mahony, Donnellan et al. 2006PW11, C18
| | `--M. coggeri Mahony, Donnellan et al. 2006PW11, C18
| `--+--M. fasciolatus Günther 1864PW11, C18
| `--M. schevilli Loveridge 1933PW11, C18
`--+--Taudactylus Straughan & Lee 1966PW11, FG06
| |--T. acutirostris (Andersson 1916)C18
| |--T. diurnus Straughan & Lee 1966C18
| |--T. eungellensis Liem & Hosmer 1973C18
| |--T. liemi Ingram 1980C18
| |--T. pleione Czechura 1986C18
| `--T. rheophilus Liem & Hosmer 1973C18
`--+--+--CriniaPW11
| `--+--Paracrinia Heyer & Liem 1976FG06
| | `--P. haswelli (Fletcher 1894)C18
| `--+--Assa Tyler 1972FG06
| | `--A. darlingtoni (Loveridge 1933)C18
| `--Geocrinia Blake 1973PW11, FG06
| | i. s.: G. lutea (Main 1963)C18
| |--+--G. leai (Fletcher 1898)A10, C18
| | `--+--G. laevis (Günther 1864)A10, C18 [=Crinia laevisK81]
| | `--G. victoriana (Boulenger 1888)A10, C18
| `--+--G. rosea (Harrison 1927)A10, C18
| `--+--G. alba Wardell-Johnson & Roberts 1989FG06, C18
| `--G. vitellina Wardell-Johnson & Roberts 1989FG06, C18
`--+--+--UperoleiaPW11
| `--Spicospina Robertys, Horwitz et al. 1997FG06
| `--S. flammocaerulea Roberts, Horwitz et al. 1997C18
`--+--+--Myobatrachus Gray 1841PW11, DE08
| | `--M. gouldii (Gray 1841)C18
| `--+--Metacrinia Harrison 1927PW11, DE08
| | `--*M. nichollsi (Harrison 1927) [=Pseudophryne nichollsi]A08
| `--Arenophryne Tyler 1976FG06, DE08
| |--*A. rotunda Tyler 1976DE08, C18
| `--A. xiphorhyncha Doughty & Edwards 2008DE08
`--Pseudophryne Fitzinger 1841PW11, DAP09
|--P. australis (Gray 1835)C18
|--P. bibronii Günther 1858C18
|--P. coriacea Keferstein 1868C18
|--P. corroboree Moore 1953C18
|--P. covacevichae Ingram & Corben 1994C18
|--P. dendyi Lucas 1892C18
|--P. douglasi Main 1964C18
|--P. guentheri Boulenger 1882C18
|--P. major Parker 1940C18
|--P. occidentalis Parker 1940C18
|--P. pengilleyi Wells & Wellington 1985C18
|--P. raveni Ingram & Corgen 1994C18
|--P. robinsoni Donnellan, Mahony & Bertozzi 2012C18
`--P. semimarmorata Lucas 1892C18
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[A08] Anstis, M. 2008. Direct development in the Australian myobatrachid frog Metacrinia nichollsi from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 24 (2): 133–150.
[A10] Anstis, M. 2010. A comparative study of divergent embryonic and larval development in the Australian frog genus Geocrinia (Anura: Myobatrachidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 25 (4): 399–440.
[C18] Cogger, H. G. 2018. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia updated 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood.
[DAP09] Doughty, P., M. Anstis & L. C. Price. 2009. A new species of Crinia (Anura: Myobatrachidae) from the high rainfall zone of the northwest Kimberley, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 25 (2): 127–144.
[DE08] Doughty, P., & D. Edwards. 2008. A new species of Arenophryne (Anura: Myobatrachidae) from the central coast of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 24 (2): 121–131.
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[PW11] Pyron, R. A., & J. J. Wiens. 2011. A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61: 543–583.
[RR00] Roček, Z., & J.-C. Rage 2000. Tertiary Anura of Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, and Australia. In: Heatwole, H., & R. L. Carroll (eds) Amphibian Biology vol. 4. Palaeontology. The evolutionary history of amphibians pp. 1332–1387. Surrey Beatty & Sons.