my relatives in seychelles ...

Lynch, 1973, In Vial (ed.), Evol. Biol. Anurans, : 133-182, suggested that the Sooglossidae was the sister-taxon of the Myobatrachinae; Savage, 1973, In Vial (ed.), Evol. Biol. Anurans, , considered them to have affinities with the ranoids, but because Lynch considered the Myobatrachinae and Sooglossidae to be cladistically closer to ranoids than to other bufonoids these statements are not necessarily in conflict. See Nussbaum, 1980, Herpetologica, 36: 1-5, Bogart and Tandy, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 55-91; and Tyler, 1985, Herpetologica, 41: 173-176, for discussion of phylogenetic placement and review of systematic literature. Nussbaum, Jaslow, and Watson, 1982, J. Herpetol., 16: 198-203, and Green, Nussbaum, and Yang, 1988, Herpetologica, 44: 113-119, discussed phylogeny within this taxon and implied that Sooglossus is paraphyletic with respect to Nesomantis.

meanwhile my cheap calender on my table says ...

" it is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of life dawns on you "