Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Ranoidea Rank Family | Class Amphibia Phylum Chordata Order Frog | |
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Similar Ranixalidae, Ptychadenidae, Ceratobatrachidae, Limnodynastidae, Pyxicephalidae | ||
Nyctibatrachidae is a small family of frogs found in the Western Ghats of India and in Sri Lanka. Their common name is robust frogs. 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.
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Genera
The family contains two genera:
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.
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