Nyctibatrachidae
| Nyctibatrachidae | |
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| File:Nyctibatrachus beddomii.jpg | |
| Nyctibatrachus beddomii | |
Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Superfamily: | Ranoidea |
| Family: | Nyctibatrachidae Blommers-Schlösser, 1993 |
| Type genus | |
| Nyctibatrachus Boulenger, 1882
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| Synonyms | |
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Nyctibatrachinae Blommers-Schlösser, 1993 |
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Nyctibatrachidae is a small family of frogs found in the Western Ghats of India and in Sri Lanka. Their common name is robust frogs.[1][2] Recognition of Nyctibatrachidae as a family is fairly recent. These frogs were earlier on placed in the broadly defined Ranidae family, most recently divided in two subfamilies, Lankanectinae and Nyctibatrachinae.[3]
Genera
The family contains two genera:[1][2]
- Lankanectes Dubois and Ohler, 2001 (Sri Lanka – 1 species)
- Nyctibatrachus Boulenger, 1882 (Western Ghats of southwestern India – 28 species)
Description
Nyctibatrachus are robust-bodied frogs that range in size from small (snout–vent length <20 mm in Nyctibatrachus beddomii) to relatively large (up to 84 mm Nyctibatrachus karnatakaensis). They occur in near streams in hilly evergreen forests. Lankanectes is an aquatic species of slow-moving rivers in marshy areas.[4]
