Myobatrachidae

Myobatrachidae; Temporal range: 25–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Late Oligocene – Recent
	The Common Eastern Froglet (Crinia signifera)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Myobatrachidae; Schlegel, 1850
Subfamilies
	See text;
	Distribution of Myobatrachidae (in black)

Myobatrachidae is a family of frogs found in Australia and New Guinea. Members of this family vary greatly in size. There are species less than 1.5 centimetres (0.59 in) long. This family also has the second-largest frog in Australia, the Giant Barred Frog at 12 centimetres (4.7 in) in length. The entire family either live in land or water. None of them live in trees.

These frogs do not have the adhesive toe disc cups found in the tree frogs. The family is broken up into three sub-families: Limnodynastinae, Myobatrachinae and Rheobatrachinae. This separation is based mainly on their egg-laying habits. Those of the sub-family Limnodynastinae lay foam nests. The female makes foam with a chemical on her skin. The foam may float on top of water, or be on land. The sub-family Rheobatrachinae has the two species of gastric-brooding frog, and the rest are in the sub-family Myobatrachinae.

Taxonomy[change | change source]

Subfamilia	Species	Common name	Binomial name
Limnodynastinae^[1]	1	Tusked Frog	Adelotus Ogilby, 1907
	6	Giant Burrowing Frogs	Heleioporus Gray, 1841
	4	Cannibal Frogs	Lechriodus Boulenger, 1882
	11	Australian Swamp Frogs	Limnodynastes Fitzinger, 1843
	10	Stubby Frogs	Neobatrachus Peters, 1863
	4	Australian Spadefoot Toads	Notaden Günther, 1873
	2	Burrowing Frogs	Opisthodon Steindachner, 1867
	6	Baw Baw Frogs	Philoria Spencer, 1901
Myobatrachinae^[2]	1	Australian Dumpy Frogs	Arenophryne Tyler, 1976
	1	Pouched Frogs	Assa Tyler, 1972
	15	Australian Froglets	Crinia Tschudi, 1838
	7	Ground Froglets	Geocrinia Blake, 1973
	1	Nicholls' Toadlets	Metacrinia Parker, 1940
	8	Barred Frogs	Mixophyes Günther, 1864
	1	Turtle Frogs	Myobatrachus Schlegel In Gray, 1850
	1	Haswell's Frogs	Paracrinia Heyer & Liem, 1976
	13	Crowned Toadlet	Pseudophryne Fitzinger, 1843
	1	Sunset Frog	Spicospina Roberts et al., 1997
	6	Australian Torrent Frogs	Taudactylus Straughan & Lee, 1966
	25	Australian Toadlets	Uperoleia Gray, 1841
Rheobatrachinae^[3]	2	Gastric Brooding Frogs	Rheobatrachus Liem, 1973

References[change | change source]

↑ Considered a family - Limnodynastidae by some authors.
↑ Considered a family - Myobatrachidae by some authors.
↑ Combined with the Myobatrachidae by some authors.

Cogger, H.G.; R.G. Zweifel and D. Kirschner (2004). Encyclopedia of Reptiles & Amphibians Second Edition. Fog City Press. ISBN 1-877019-69-0.

[1] Considered a family - Limnodynastidae by some authors.

[2] Considered a family - Myobatrachidae by some authors.

[3] Combined with the Myobatrachidae by some authors.

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