Ceratobatrachidae | |
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Cornufer guentheri | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Clade: | Ranoidea |
Family: |
Ceratobatrachidae Boulenger, 1884 |
Type genus | |
Ceratobatrachus Boulenger, 1884
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Genera | |
5, see text. | |
Synonyms | |
Ceratobatrachinae |
The Ceratobatrachidae are a family of frogs [1] [2] found in the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, the Philippines, Palau, Fiji, New Guinea, and the Admiralty, Bismarck, and Solomon Islands. [1]
Ceratobatrachidae was formerly treated as a subfamily (i.e., Ceratobatrachinae) in the family Ranidae (true frogs), but have now been re-classified as a separate family. The following genera are recognised: [1]
Formerly, the following genera were also recognized in the family Ceratobatrachidae, but have now been merged into the genera above.
Ceratobatrachidae is distributed across Island Southeast Asia, [3] as well as in the Eastern Himalayas.
All Ceratobatrachidae lay eggs outside of water and undergo direct development where eggs hatch directly into froglets, without free-living tadpole stages. [4]