''Sphaerotheca'' is a genus of

true frog True frogs is the common name for the frog family Ranidae. They have the widest distribution of any frog family. They are abundant throughout most of the world, occurring on all continents except Antarctica. The true frogs are present in North Am ...

s. They can be found in South Asia. Molecular data suggest that they are closely related to ''

Fejervarya ''Fejervarya'' is a genera of frogs in the family Dicroglossidae found in Asia. First proposed in 1915 by István József Bolkay, a Hungarian naturalist, the genus did not see widespread adoption at first. As late as the 1990s it was generally i ...

'', perhaps as a monophyletic group within a paraphyletic ''Fejervarya''.

Species

There are currently 11 described species in ''Sphaerotheca'': * '' Spaerotheca bengaluru'' *''

Sphaerotheca breviceps The Indian burrowing frog (''Sphaerotheca breviceps'') is a species of frog found in South Asia (Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka and in Myanmar ). Description Its vomerine teeth form two oblique groups extending a little beyon ...

'' (Schneider, 1799) * '' Sphaerotheca dobsoni'' (Boulenger, 1882) * '' Sphaerotheca leucorhynchus'' (Rao, 1937) * '' Sphaerotheca magadha'' Prasad, Dinesh, Das, Swamy, Shinde, and Vishnu, 2019 * '' Sphaerotheca maskeyi'' (Schleich and Anders, 1998) * '' Sphaerotheca pashchima'' Padhye, Dahanukar, Sulakhe, Dandekar, Limaye, and Jamdade, 2017 * '' Sphaerotheca pluvialis'' (Jerdon, 1853) * '' Sphaerotheca rolandae'' (Dubois, 1983) * '' Sphaerotheca strachani'' (Murray, 1884) * ''

Sphaerotheca swani ''Sphaerotheca swani'' is a species of frog in the family Ranidae endemic to Nepal. Its natural habitat In ecology, the term habitat summarises the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to ...

'' (Myers and Leviton, 1956)

References

Dicroglossidae Amphibian genera Frogs of Asia Taxa named by Albert Günther {{Dicroglossidae-stub