Ceratobatrachidae

family of amphibians

The Ceratobatrachidae are a family of frogs.[1][2] They live in the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, the Philippines, Palau, Fiji, New Guinea, and the Admiralty, Bismarck, and Solomon Islands.[1]

Ceratobatrachidae
Cornufer guentheri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Ceratobatrachidae
Boulenger, 1884
Type genus
Ceratobatrachus
Boulenger, 1884
Genera

5, see text.

Synonyms

Ceratobatrachinae

Taxonomy

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Scientists used to think of Ceratobatrachidae as a subfamily (i.e., Ceratobatrachinae) in the family Ranidae (true frogs), but now they call it a separate family. The following genera are in Ceratobatrachidae:[1]

  • Subfamily Alcalinae Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos, and Cannatella, 2015
  • Subfamily Ceratobatrachinae Boulenger, 1884
  • Subfamily Liuraninae Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010

Some other genera used to be in Ceratobatrachidae, but scientists now think the frogs that used to be in these genera should be in the genera above.

Distribution

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Ceratobatrachidae live across Island Southeast Asia,[3] as well as in the Eastern Himalayas.

Genus Liurana
Genus Alcalus
Genus Platymantis
  • Philippines:
Genus Cornufer

Life history

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All Ceratobatrachidae lay eggs outside of water and undergo direct development. That means the eggs hatch into small frogs and are never tadpoles.[4]

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Ceratobatrachidae Boulenger, 1884". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  2. "Ceratobatrachidae Boulenger, 1884". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  3. Brown, Rafe M.; Siler, Cameron D.; Richards, Stephen J.; Diesmos, Arvin C.; Cannatella, David C. (2015). "Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for Southeast Asian and Melanesian forest frogs (family Ceratobatrachidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 174 (1): 130–168. doi:10.1111/zoj.12232.
  4. Fuiten, Allison Marie (2012). Skeletal Variation in Melanesian Forest Frogs (Anura: Ceratobatrachidae). M.A. thesis , University of Kansas. p. 69. Retrieved 22 February 2014.