Sphaerotheca is a genus of true frogs. They can be found in South Asia. Molecular data suggest that they are closely related to Fejervarya, perhaps as a monophyletic group within a paraphyletic Fejervarya.[1]
| Sphaerotheca | |
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| Sphaerotheca breviceps | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Dicroglossidae |
| Subfamily: | Dicroglossinae |
| Genus: | Sphaerotheca Günther, 1859 |
| Type species | |
| Sphaerotheca strigata Günther, 1859 "1858"
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| Species | |
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11, see text. | |
Species edit
There are currently 11 described species in Sphaerotheca:[1]
- Spaerotheca bengaluru Deepak, Dinesh, Ohler, Shanker, Channakeshavamurthy & Ashadevi, 2020[2]
- Sphaerotheca breviceps (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 (Myers and Leviton, 1956)
- Sphaerotheca varshaabhu (Deepak et al., 2024) [3][4]
References edit
- ^ a b Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Sphaerotheca Günther, 1859". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
- ^ Deepak, P.; Dinesh, K. P.; Ohler, Annemarie; Shanker, Kartik; Channakeshavamurthy, B. H.; Ashadevi, J. S. (2020-11-26). "A new species of Sphaerotheca Günther, 1859 (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the degraded urban ecosystems of Bengaluru, Deccan Plateau, India". Zootaxa. 4885 (3): 423–436. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4885.3.6. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33311271. S2CID 229174927.
- ^ P. Deepak, K.P. Dinesh, K.S. Chetan Nag, Annemarie Ohler, Kartik Shanker, Princia D Souza, Vishal Kumar Prasad and J.S. Ashadevi. 2024. Discovery and Description of A New Species of Burrowing Frog Sphaerotheca Günther, 1859 (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the suburban landscapes of Bengaluru, India. Zootaxa. 5405(3); 381-410. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5405.3.3
- ^ Desk, NewsDrum. "New species of burrowing frog named 'Sphaerotheca Varshaabhu' discovered in Bengaluru". www.newsdrum.in. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
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