Biology:Sphaerotheca (frog)

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Short description: Genus of amphibians

Sphaerotheca
Tomopterna breviceps.jpg
Sphaerotheca breviceps
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
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]

  • Sphaerotheca varshaabhu [2]
  • Spaerotheca bengaluru Deepak, Dinesh, Ohler, Shanker, Channakeshavamurthy & Ashadevi, 2020[3]
  • 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)

References

Wikidata ☰ Q1985447 entry