''Hoplobatrachus'' is a
genus
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of
frog
A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" ''Triadobatrachus'' is ...
s in the family
Dicroglossidae
The frog family Dicroglossidae occurs in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia and Africa, with most genera and species being found in Asia. The common name of the family is fork-tongued frogs.
The Dicroglossidae were previously considered to ...
.
This genus is found in both
Sub-Saharan Africa and southern and southeastern
Asia
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. It is the
sister taxon
In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.
Definition
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Taxon A and ...
of ''
Euphlyctis
''Euphlyctis'' is a genus of frogs in family Dicroglossidae distributed from the southwestern Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan and Afghanistan to India, Nepal, through Myanmar and Thailand to Malaya, and Sri Lanka. None of the four species assessed by ...
'', although there is some evidence that it might be
paraphyletic with respect to ''Euphlyctis''. These frogs are sometimes known as the crowned bullfrogs oder the tiger frogs.
[Channing, A. & Rödel, M.-O. (2019) Field guide to the frogs & other amphibians of Africa. Struiker Nature, Cape Town.]
Species
''Hoplobatrachus'' has five described species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
:[
* '']Hoplobatrachus crassus
''Hoplobatrachus crassus'', also called Jerdon's bullfrog, Jerdon's bull frog, and South Indian bullfrog, is a species of frog found widely distributed on the plains of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Its range may extend to the adjacen ...
'' (Jerdon, 1854)
* '' Hoplobatrachus litoralis'' Hasan, Kuramoto, Islam, Alam, Khan, and Sumida, 2012
* ''Hoplobatrachus occipitalis
The crowned bullfrog (''Hoplobatrachus occipitalis'') is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
It is found in the Sub-Saharan Africa (Algeria, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic ...
'' (Günther, 1858)
* '' Hoplobatrachus rugulosus'' (Wiegmann, 1834)
* ''Hoplobatrachus tigerinus
''Hoplobatrachus tigerinus'', commonly known as the Indian bullfrog, is a large species of fork-tongued frog found in South and Southeast Asia. A relatively large frog, it is normally green in color, although physiological traits vary between po ...
'' (Daudin, 1802)
References
Dicroglossidae
Amphibians of Sub-Saharan Africa
Amphibians of Asia
Amphibian genera
Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters
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