Ceratobatrachidae
{{Short description|Family of amphibians}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = CeratobatrachusGuentheriLyd.jpg
| image_caption = Cornufer guentheri
| taxon = Ceratobatrachidae
| authority = Boulenger, 1884
| type_genus = Ceratobatrachus
| type_genus_authority = Boulenger, 1884
| synonyms = Ceratobatrachinae
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision =
5, see text.
}}
The Ceratobatrachidae are a family of frogs{{cite web |url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Ceratobatrachidae |title=Ceratobatrachidae Boulenger, 1884 |author=Frost, Darrel R. |year=2014 |work=Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |access-date=22 February 2014}}{{ITIS|id=773179 |taxon=Ceratobatrachidae Boulenger, 1884}} 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,{{cite journal |last1=Brown |first1=Rafe M. |last2=Siler |first2=Cameron D. |last3=Richards |first3=Stephen J. |last4=Diesmos |first4=Arvin C. |last5=Cannatella |first5=David C. |title=Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for Southeast Asian and Melanesian forest frogs (family Ceratobatrachidae) |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=174 |issue=1 |year=2015 |pages=130–168 |doi=10.1111/zoj.12232|doi-access=free }} 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.{{cite book |title=Skeletal Variation in Melanesian Forest Frogs (Anura: Ceratobatrachidae) |last=Fuiten |first=Allison Marie |year=2012 |publisher=M.A. thesis , University of Kansas |pages=69 |url=http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/handle/1808/10647 |access-date=22 February 2014}}
References
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