The evidentiary basis of the currently accepted classification of living amphibians is
discussed and shown not to warrant the degree of authority conferred on it by use and …

The fossil record of modern amphibians (frogs, salamanders, and caecilians) provides no
evidence for major extinction or radiation episodes throughout most of the Mesozoic and …

Higher-level relationships among catfishes were investigated by parsimony, maximum
likelihood and Bayesian analyses of two nuclear genes across 110 catfish species …

Anura (frogs and toads) constitute over 88% of living amphibian diversity but many important
questions about their phylogeny and evolution remain unresolved. For this study, we …

Geographic patterns of species richness ultimately arise through the processes of
speciation, extinction, and dispersal, but relatively few studies consider evolutionary and …

Dollo's law states that structures that are evolutionarily lost will not be regained. Recent
phylogenetic studies have revealed several potential examples in which Dollo's law seems …

The family Microhylidae has a large circumtropic distribution and contains about 400
species in a highly subdivided taxonomy. Relationships among its constituent taxa remained …

The evolution of parental care and egg size has attracted considerable attention and
theoretical debate. Several different hypotheses have been proposed concerning the …

Microhylidae is a large, cosmopolitan anuran family. Recent molecular analyses have
demonstrated the monophyly of the family—a conclusion that is supported by the larval …

1. By DC Blackburn & DB Wake (for full contact details, see the list after References). The
title of this contribution should be cited as “Class Amphibia Gray, 182. In: Zhang, Z.-Q.(Ed.) …