The
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 ...
family
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Dicroglossidae
occurs in tropical and subtropical regions of
Asia
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and
Africa
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, with most genera and species being found in Asia. The common name of the family is fork-tongued frogs.
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The Dicroglossidae were previously considered to be a subfamily in the family Ranidae, but their position as a family is now well established.]
Subfamilies and genera
The two subfamilies contain 213 species in 13–15 genera, depending on the source.[
Dicroglossinae Anderson, 1871 — 197 species in 12 genera:
Occidozyginae Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990 — 16 species in two genera:]
Phylogeny
The following phylogeny of Dicroglossidae is from Pyron & Wiens (2011).sister group
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
The expression is most easily illustrated by a cladogram:
Taxon A and ...
of Ranixalidae.
References
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