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This list of Anuran families shows all extant families of Anura. Anura is an order of animals in the class Amphibia that includes frogs and toads. More than 5,000 species are described in the order. The living anurans are typically divided into three suborders: Archaeobatrachia, Mesobatrachia, and Neobatrachia. This classification is based on ...
[1] [2] Formerly the subfamily Eleutherodactylinae of the family Leptodactylidae, it was raised to the family status following a major revision of New World direct-developing frogs in 2008. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] As currently defined, the family has more than 200 species (as of 2014, 206 [ 1 ] or 207 [ 2 ] species).
Order: Anura. Family: Eleutherodactylidae. Eleutherodactylidae is a large family of frogs that are distributed in the neotropics, from the south of Texas, through Central America to the north of South America. 3 species occur in Guatemala. Eleutherodactylus leprus Cope, 1879 [8] [VU] Eleutherodactylus pipilans Taylor, 1940 [9]
A true toad is any member of the family Bufonidae, in the order Anura (frogs and toads). This is the only family of anurans in which all members are known as toads, although some may be called frogs (such as harlequin frogs). The bufonids now comprise more than 35 genera, Bufo being the best known.
Shelania is an extinct genus of prehistoric frogs that lived in South America during the Eocene.Its type species is Shelania pascuali.Fossils of Shelania have been found in the Mustersan Vaca Mahuida and Laguna del Hunco Formations of Argentina. [1]
True frogs is the common name for the frog family Ranidae. They have the widest distribution of any frog family. They are abundant throughout most of the world, occurring on all continents except Antarctica. The true frogs are present in North America, northern South America, Europe, Africa (including Madagascar), and Asia.
Order: Anura – Family: Bufonidae. Incilius campbelli (LC) Incilius valliceps (LC) Rhinella marina (LC) Centrolenidae. Order: Anura – Family: Centrolenidae.
Order: Anura. Family: Ranidae. Rana catesbeiana This page was last edited on 19 February 2023, at 22:36 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...