salientia

Tree frogs are one of the largest families in the Salientia order.

Furthermore, Salientia includes all three recent orders plus the Triassic proto-frog, Triadobatrachus.

More precisely, it is a member of Salientia; it is related to, but outside Anura, the taxon that includes all extant frogs.

GÜNTHER, Albert (1858) Catalogue of the Batrachia salientia in the collection of the British Museum.

The Lissamphibia are traditionally divided into three orders, but an extinct salamander-like family, the Albanerpetontidae, is now considered part of the Lissamphibia alongside the superorder Salientia.

Authorities disagree as to whether Salientia is a superorder that includes the order Anura, or whether Anura is a sub-order of the order Salientia.

The common features possessed by the "proto-frogs" in the Salientia group include fourteen presacral vertebrae (modern frogs have eight or nine), a long and forward-sloping ilium in the pelvis, the presence of a frontoparietal bone and a lower jaw without teeth.

Salientia (Latin salere (salio), "to jump") is a total group of amphibians that includes the order Anura, the frogs and toads, and various extinct proto-frogs that are more closely related to the frogs than they are to order Caudata, the salamanders and newts.