Latonia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Superordo: Batrachia Cladus: Salientia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Alytidae
Genus: Latonia
Species (1 + †5): L. nigriventer – †L. dimenticata – †L. gigantea – †L. ragei – †L. seyfriedi – †L. vertaizoni

Latonia Meyer, 1843: 580

Type species: †Latonia (Ceratophrys) seyfriedii Meyer, 1843, by original designation.

Meyer, H. von 1843. [Mittheilung an professor Bronn gerichtet]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 1843(II. Briefwechsel): 579–590. BHL Reference page.

Rocek, Z. 1994. Taxonomy and Distribution of Tertiary Discoglossids (Anura) of the genus Latonia v. Meyer, 1843. Geobios 27(6): 717–751.
Biton, R., Geffen, E., Vences, M., Cohen, O., Bailon, S., Rabinovich, R., Malka, Y., Oron, T., Boistel, R., Brumfeld, V. & Gafny, S. 2013. The rediscovered Hula painted frog is a living fossil. Nature Communications 4: 1959. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2959
Biton, R., Boistel, R., Rabinovich, R., Gafny, S., Brumfeld, V. & Bailon, S. 2016. Osteological Observations on the Alytid Anura Latonia nigriventer with Comments on Functional Morphology, Biogeography, and Evolutionary History. Journal of Morphology 277(9): 1131–1145. DOI: 10.1002/jmor.20562
Sorbelli, L., Azzarà, B., Cherin, M., Delfino, M., Roček, Z. & Villa, A. 2025. Why extant, why not extinct? A new extinct Latonia species (Anura: Discoglossidae) from the Early Pleistocene of the Apennine Peninsula provides clues on the survival of the genus in Eurasia. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1) 2554727. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2025.2554727 Reference page.