• Source: Ceratobatrachidae

The Ceratobatrachidae are a family of frogs found in the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, the Philippines, Palau, Fiji, New Guinea, and the Admiralty, Bismarck, and Solomon Islands.




Taxonomy


Ceratobatrachidae was formerly treated as a subfamily (i.e., Ceratobatrachinae) in the family Ranidae (true frogs), but have now been re-classified as a separate family. The following genera are recognised:

Subfamily Alcalinae Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos, and Cannatella, 2015
Alcalus (5 species)
Subfamily Ceratobatrachinae Boulenger, 1884
Cornufer Tschudi, 1838 (> 50 species)
Platymantis Günther, 1858 (> 30 species)
Subfamily Liuraninae Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010
Liurana Dubois, 1987 (4 species)
Formerly, the following genera were also recognized in the family Ceratobatrachidae, but have now been merged into the genera above.

Batrachylodes Boulenger, 1887 (8 species)
Palmatorappia Ahl, 1927 (1 species)
Ceratobatrachus Boulenger, 1884 (1 species)
Discodeles Boulenger, 1918 (5 species)




Distribution


Ceratobatrachidae is distributed across Island Southeast Asia, as well as in the Eastern Himalayas.

Genus Liurana
Eastern Himalayas: 4 species
Genus Alcalus
Borneo: 2 species (Alcalus baluensis and Alcalus rajae)
Palawan: 1 species (Alcalus mariae)
Genus Platymantis
Philippines:
Genus Cornufer
Palau: 1 species
Maluku: 3-4 species
New Guinea: 6-8 species
Bismarck Archipelago: 18-22 species
Solomon Islands: 20-25 species
Fiji: 2 species




Life history


All Ceratobatrachidae lay eggs outside of water and undergo direct development where eggs hatch directly into froglets, without free-living tadpole stages.




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Anura
• Ceratobatrachidae
• Wildlife of China
• List of endemic amphibians of Papua New Guinea
• Frog
• Ranoidea
• List of amphibians
• List of amphibians of China
• Admiralty Islands
• Cornufer caesiops
• Forest frog (disambiguation)