Dicroglossinae (Subfamily)

Overview

Taxonomy

The Subfamily Dicroglossinae is a member of the Family Dicroglossidae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Dicroglossinae:

Domain: Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
  - Subkingdom: Bilateria (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
    - Branch: Deuterostomia Grobben, 1908 - Deuterostomes
      - Infrakingdom: Chordonia (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
        Phylum: Chordata Bateson, 1885 - Chordates
        Subphylum: Vertebrata Cuvier, 1812 - Vertebrates
        Infraphylum: Gnathostomata auct. - Jawed Vertebrates
        Superclass: Tetrapoda Goodrich, 1930 - Tetrapods
        Class: Amphibia (am-FIB-ee-uh) Gray, 1825
        Subclass: Lissamphibia Haeckel, 1866
        Infraclass: Lissamphibia
        Order: Anura (Fischer von Waldheim, 1813) Gray, 1825 - Frogs, Toads
        Suborder: Neobatrachia Reig, 1958
        Family: Dicroglossidae J. Anderson, 1871
        Subfamily: Dicroglossinae

The Subfamily Dicroglossinae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Tribe (2): Dicroglossini · Limnonectini
Genus (14): Allopaa · Altirana · Annandia · Chrysopaa · Euphlyctis · Fejervarya · Hoplobatrachus · Limnonectes · Minervarya · Nannophrys · Nanorana · Ombrana · Quasipaa · Sphaerotheca
Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 221 species and subspecies in the Subfamily Dicroglossinae.

Genera

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Euphlyctis

Euphlyctis is a genus of . [more]

Fejervarya

Fejervarya is one of the Asian genera of true frogs. First proposed in 1915 by , a Jugoslavian (at that time Austrian-Hungarian) naturalist of Hungarian descent also known as Stephan Bolkay, the genus did not see widespread adoption at first. As late as the 1990s it was generally included in Rana, but more recent studies have confirmed its distinctness. [more]

Hoplobatrachus

Hoplobatrachus is a genus of . [more]

Limnonectes

Limnonectes is a genus of . There are about 53 known species, but new ones are still being described occasionally. They are collectively known as fanged frogs because they tend to have unusually large teeth, which are small or absent in other frogs. [more]

Minervarya

Fejervarya sahyadris is a species of frog in the Ranidae family. It was initially placed in a monotypic genus Minervarya. [more]

Nannophrys

Nannophrys is a genus of from Sri Lanka. [more]

Nanorana

Nanorana is a small genus of . [more]

Ombrana

Quasipaa

Sphaerotheca

This article is about the amphibian genus Sphaerotheca. For the fungal genus, see Sphaerotheca (fungi) [more]

At least 64 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Sphaerotheca.

More info about the Genus Sphaerotheca may be found here.

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