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Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Mesobatrachia (177 words) |
 | Mesobatrachia is the second largest of the Anura suborders of amphibians. |
| The name suggests they are moderately old (compared to the prefixes archeo- "ancient" and neo- "new" of the other two suborders). |
| Mesobatrachia are a relatively new group, only having been identified as such in 1993. |
| Salientia (2810 words) |
| Mesobatrachia (Node F) Ford and Cannatella (1993) applied the name Mesobatrachia to the node that is the most recent common ancestor of the living Pelobatoidea and Pipoidea. |
| Synapomorphies of Mesobatrachia include closure of the frontoparietal fontanelle by juxtaposition of the frontoparietal bones, partial closure of the hyoglossal sinus by the ceratohyals (=hyalia), absence of the taenia tecti medialis, and absence of the taenia tecti transversum (Cannatella, 1985; Sokol, 1981). |
| Mesobatrachia as proposed by Laurent (1979) was a paraphyletic group. |
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