Sphaerotheca (frog)

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

11, see text.

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]

Species[]

There are currently 11 described species in Sphaerotheca:[1]

  • Deepak, Dinesh, Ohler, Shanker, Channakeshavamurthy & Ashadevi, 2020[2]
  • Sphaerotheca breviceps (Schneider, 1799)
  • Sphaerotheca dobsoni (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Sphaerotheca leucorhynchus (Rao, 1937)
  • Prasad, Dinesh, Das, Swamy, Shinde, and Vishnu, 2019
  • Sphaerotheca maskeyi (Schleich and Anders, 1998)
  • Padhye, Dahanukar, Sulakhe, Dandekar, Limaye, and Jamdade, 2017
  • (Jerdon, 1853)
  • Sphaerotheca rolandae (Dubois, 1983)
  • (Murray, 1884)
  • Sphaerotheca swani (Myers and Leviton, 1956)

References[]

  1. ^ a b 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.
  2. ^ Deepak, P.; Dinesh, K. P.; Ohler, Annemarie; Shanker, Kartik; Channakeshavamurthy, B. H.; Ashadevi, J. S. (2020-11-26). "A new species of Sphaerotheca Günther, 1859 (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the degraded urban ecosystems of Bengaluru, Deccan Plateau, India". Zootaxa. 4885 (3): 423–436. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4885.3.6. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33311271. S2CID 229174927.


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