''Glyphoglossus'' is a genus of frogs in the family

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. The genus occurs in Southeastern Asia. Common name balloon frogs has been coined for it, whereas the common name squat frogs refers to the ''Calluella'' species that are now included in this genus. They are fossorial frogs that spend only limited time on the soil surface and are typically known from only few specimens.

Taxonomy

''Glyphoglossus'', as currently delimited, includes species formerly included in a separate genus, ''Calluella''. Molecular genetic data strongly suggest that ''Glyphoglossus'' is nested within ''Calluella''. Consequently, ''Calluella'' was brought into

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of ''Glyphoglossus''.

Description

Diagnostic characteristics of ''Calluella'' are wide head and flattened body; reduced eyes; presence of maxillary and

vomerine teeth The vomer (; lat, vomer, lit=ploughshare) is one of the unpaired facial bones of the skull. It is located in the midsagittal line, and articulates with the sphenoid, the ethmoid, the left and right palatine bones, and the left and right maxill ...

; toes with reduced webbing; circular

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; large, oval, and entire tongue;

palate The palate () is the roof of the mouth in humans and other mammals. It separates the oral cavity from the nasal cavity. A similar structure is found in crocodilians, but in most other tetrapods, the oral and nasal cavities are not truly separ ...

having paired dermal ridges; and a large compressed inner

metatarsal The metatarsal bones, or metatarsus, are a group of five long bones in the foot, located between the tarsal bones of the hind- and mid-foot and the phalanges of the toes. Lacking individual names, the metatarsal bones are numbered from the me ...

tubercle under each foot. Species of this Genus are found in the range from Southern China to Indo-Malaya

Species

There are nine recognized species: * '' Glyphoglossus brooksii'' (Boulenger, 1904) * '' Glyphoglossus capsus'' (Das, Min, Hsu, Hertwig, and Haas, 2014) * '' Glyphoglossus flavus'' (Kiew, 1984) * '' Glyphoglossus guttulatus'' (Blyth, 1856) * '' Glyphoglossus minutus'' (Das, Yaakob, and Lim, 2004) * '' Glyphoglossus molossus'' Günther, 1869 * '' Glyphoglossus smithi'' (Barbour and Noble, 1916) * '' Glyphoglossus volzi'' (Van Kampen, 1905) * '' Glyphoglossus yunnanensis'' (Boulenger, 1919)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q10762013 Microhylidae Amphibians of Asia Amphibian genera Taxa named by Albert Günther Indomalayan realm fauna