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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 ...
A cladogram showing the relationships of the different families of frogs in the clade Anura can be seen in the table below. This diagram, in the form of a tree , shows how each frog family is related to other families, with each node representing a point of common ancestry.
Eopelobates is an extinct genus of frogs in the family Pelobatidae. [2] Closely related to the living European spadefoot toad, it is known from the Eocene of western North America, and the Eocene–Pliocene of Europe. It is suggested that the distribution over both Europe and North America is due to dispersal during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal ...
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Archaeobatrachia (Neo-Latin archaeo-("old") + batrachia ("frog")) is a suborder of the order Anura containing various primitive frogs and toads.As the name suggests, these are the most primitive frogs.
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.
The family of Ranixalidae (leaping frogs) has one genus containing 10 different species. They can be found in central and southern India. They can be found in central and southern India. They typically reside in leaf litter and in tropical deciduous forests , near streams and can be found between 200 m and 1100 m in altitude.
Charadrahyla pinorum is a species of frog in the family Hylidae. It is endemic to the Pacific slopes of Sierra Madre del Sur between central Guerrero and southwestern and central Oaxaca, Mexico. Common names pine wood treefrog and Mexican pine woods treefrog have been proposed for it. [1] [2] Its closest relative is probably Charadrahyla ...