The Strabomantidae, sometimes called cloud forest landfrogs, are a family of frogs native to South America. These frogs lack a free-living larval stage and hatch directly into miniature "froglets". This family includes Pristimantis, the most speciose genus of any vertebrate. Based on molecular dating, the Holoadeninae in particular appears to have originated in the Eocene. The Oligocene-Miocene transition was also found to be important to their biogeographical history. However, the lack of Holoadeninae fossils and limited nucleotide data ambiguates the results, by the authors' admission.
Systematics
The following subfamilies and genera are in the family Strabomantidae.
- Holoadeninae
- Bahius <small>Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021</small>
- Barycholos <small>Heyer, 1969</small>
- Bryophryne <small>Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008</small>
- Euparkerella <small>Griffiths, 1959</small>
- Holoaden <small>Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920</small>
- Microkayla <small>De la Riva, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, and Padial, 2017</small>
- Noblella <small>Barbour, 1930</small>
- Phyllonastes <small>Heyer, 1977</small>
- Psychrophrynella <small>Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008</small>
- Qosqophryne <small>Catenazzi, Mamani, Lehr, and von May 2020</small>
- Urkuphryne <small>Ortega et al., 2025</small>
- Hypodactylinae
- Niceforonia <small>Goin and Cochran, 1963</small>
- Pristimantinae
- Lynchius <small>Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008</small>
- Oreobates <small>Jiménez de la Espada, 1872</small>
- Phrynopus <small>Peters, 1873</small>
- Pristimantis <small>Jiménez de la Espada, 1870</small>
- Serranobatrachus <small>Arroyo, Targino, Rueda-Solano, Daza-R., and Grant, 2022</small>
- Tachiramantis <small>Heinicke, Barrio-Amorós, and Hedges, 2015</small>
- Yunganastes <small>Padial, Castroviejo-Fisher, Köhler, Domic, and De la Riva, 2007</small>
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