Combinations

• Ceuthomantidae Heinicke, Duellman, Trueb, Means, MacCulloch & Hedges, 2009: 6 [original combination as family rank]
• Ceuthomantinae — Padial, Grant & Frost, 2014: 599 [name combination, reduce to subfamily rank]

Synonyms

• Pristimantinae Pyron & Wiens, 2011: 580 [considered a Nomen nudum by Ohler & Dubois, 2012: 165]
• Pristimantinae Ohler & Dubois, 2012: 165 [synonymised by Padial, Grant & Frost, 2014: 53]

Type genus: Pristimantis Jiménez de la Espada, 1870, by original designation.

Primary references

• Heinicke, M.P., Duellman, W.E., Trueb, L., Means, D.B., MacCulloch, R.D. & Hedges, S.B. 2009. A new frog family (Anura: Terrarana) from South America and an expanded direct-developing clade revealed by molecular phylogeny. Zootaxa 2211: 1–35. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 

• Pyron, A.A. & Wiens, J.J. 2011. A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2,800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(2): 543–583. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.06.012 Reference page. 

• Ohler, A. & Dubois, A. 2012. Validation of two familial nomina nuda of Amphibia Anura. Alytes. Paris 28(3-4): 162–167. Reference page. 

• Padial, J.M.; Grant, T.; Frost, D.R. 2014. Molecular systematics of terraranas (Anura: Brachycephaloidea) with an assessment of the effects of alignment and optimality criteria. Zootaxa 3825(1): 1–132. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3825.1.1 Reference page. 

• Padial, J.M., Grant, T. & Frost, D.R. 2014. JOSÉ M. PADIAL, TARAN GRANT & DARREL R. FROST (2014) Molecular systematics of terraranas (Anura: Brachycephaloidea) with an assessment of the effects of alignment and optimality criteria. Zootaxa 3825(1): 1–132. Zootaxa 3827(4): 599–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3827.4.10 Reference page.