Meeting Abstract
The family Microhylidae contains over 250 species that are endemic to Papua New Guinea and have evolved great ecological diversity not commonly seen in other frog groups. However, the evolutionary relationships within the clade remain unclear. This is largely due to homoplastic morphological characters that result in taxonomic instability as well as the molecular phylogenies that lack support. Here, we present the largest and most robust phylogeny to date for the Papuan microhylid clade. We also explore potential problems that caused uncertainty within this large phylogeny and the approaches we took to resolve signal conflict. This phylogeny could also result in reorganization of the taxonomy to reflect their evolutionary history.
