Sphaerotheca (frog)

Sphaerotheca is a genus of true frogs. They can be found in South Asia. Molecular data suggest that they are closely related to Fejervarya, perhaps as a monophyletic group within a paraphyletic Fejervarya.[1]

Sphaerotheca
Sphaerotheca breviceps
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dicroglossidae
Subfamily: Dicroglossinae
Genus: Sphaerotheca
Günther, 1859
Type species
Sphaerotheca strigata
Günther, 1859 "1858"

Species

The following species are recognized in the genusSphaerotheca:[1]

  • Sphaerotheca breviceps (Schneider, 1799)
  • Sphaerotheca dobsoni (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Sphaerotheca leucorhynchus (Rao, 1937)
  • Sphaerotheca magadha Prasad, Dinesh, Das, Swamy, Shinde, and Vishnu, 2019
  • Sphaerotheca maskeyi (Schleich and Anders, 1998)
  • Sphaerotheca pashchima Padhye, Dahanukar, Sulakhe, Dandekar, Limaye, and Jamdade, 2017
  • Sphaerotheca pluvialis (Jerdon, 1853)
  • Sphaerotheca rolandae (Dubois, 1983)
  • Sphaerotheca strachani (Murray, 1884)
  • Sphaerotheca swani (Myers and Leviton, 1956)
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References

  1. Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Sphaerotheca Günther, 1859". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2 March 2014.


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