Nyctibatrachidae
| Nyctibatrachidae | |
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| Nyctibatrachus beddomii | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Superfamily: | Ranoidea |
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Nyctibatrachidae Blommers-Schlösser, 1993 |
| Type genus | |
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Nyctibatrachus Boulenger, 1882 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Nyctibatrachinae Blommers-Schlösser, 1993 |
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Nyctibatrachinae Blommers-Schlösser, 1993
Lankanectinae Dubois and Ohler, 2001
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.
The family contains two genera:
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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