''Euphlyctis'' is a genus 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 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 ...

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 the IUCN is considered

threatened Threatened species are any species (including animals, plants and fungi) which are vulnerable to endangerment in the near future. Species that are threatened are sometimes characterised by the population dynamics measure of ''critical depensa ...

Species

There are eight species recognised in the genus ''Euphlyctis'': * ''

Euphlyctis aloysii ''Euphlyctis aloysii'' is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. It is endemic to Karnataka, southwestern India. It was species description, described from a female holotype from Mangalore, Karnataka. Description Adults are small comp ...

'' Joshy, Alam, Kurabayashi, Sumida, and Kuramoto, 2009 * '' Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis'' (Schneider, 1799) * ''

Euphlyctis ehrenbergii ''Euphlyctis ehrenbergii'' (Arabian five-fingered frog or Arabian skittering frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. It is endemic to the southwestern Arabian Peninsula in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. It has been treated as a subspe ...

'' (Peters, 1863) * ''

Euphlyctis ghoshi ''Euphlyctis ghoshi'' (Manipur frog, Ghosh's frog) is a species of frog found in Manipur, India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most ...

'' (Chanda, 1991) * '' Euphlyctis hexadactylus'' (Lesson, 1834) * '' Euphlyctis kalasgramensis'' Howlader, Nair, Gopalan, and Merilä, 2015 * ''

Euphlyctis karaavali ''Euphlyctis karaavali'' (Karaavali skittering frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. It is endemic to the southwestern coast of India in Karnataka. Description It is a large adult size frog with snout to vent length in males ...

'' Priti, Naik, Seshadri, Singal, Vidisha, Ravikanth, and Gururaja, 2016 * ''

Euphlyctis kerala ''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 b ...

'' Dinesh, Channakeshavamurthy, Deepak, Ghosh, and Deuti, 2021 * ''Euphlyctis mudigere'' Joshy, Alam, Kurabayashi, Sumida, and Kuramoto, 2009 was placed into the synonymy of ''Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis''

References

Dicroglossidae Amphibians of Asia Amphibian genera Taxa named by Leopold Fitzinger {{Dicroglossidae-stub