''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 in ...

'', perhaps as a

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group within a

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''Fejervarya''.

Species

There are currently 11 described species in ''Sphaerotheca'': * '' Spaerotheca bengaluru'' *'' Sphaerotheca breviceps'' (Schneider, 1799) * ''

Sphaerotheca dobsoni ''Sphaerotheca dobsonii'' (common names: Mangalore bullfrog, Dobson's burrowing frog) is a species of frog capable of burrowing. It is found in southern India. Description The vomerine teeth occur in two oblique series between the choanae. It is ...

'' (Boulenger, 1882) * ''

Sphaerotheca leucorhynchus ''Sphaerotheca leucorhynchus'' (common names: Wattakole bullfrog, Rao's burrowing frog, Rao's white-banded frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. It is endemic to India: it is only known from its type locality in Kodagu d ...

'' (Rao, 1937) * ''

Sphaerotheca magadha ''Sphaerotheca'' may refer to: * ''Sphaerotheca'' (frog), a genus of frogs in the family Dicroglossidae * ''Sphaerotheca'' (fungus), a genus of fungi in the family Erysiphaceae {{genus disambiguation ...

'' Prasad, Dinesh, Das, Swamy, Shinde, and Vishnu, 2019 * ''

Sphaerotheca maskeyi ''Sphaerotheca maskeyi'' is a species of frog in the family Ranidae found in Nepal and possibly Bhutan and India. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland g ...

'' (Schleich and Anders, 1998) * ''

Sphaerotheca pashchima ''Sphaerotheca'' may refer to: * ''Sphaerotheca'' (frog), a genus of frogs in the family Dicroglossidae * ''Sphaerotheca'' (fungus), a genus of fungi in the family Erysiphaceae {{genus disambiguation ...

'' Padhye, Dahanukar, Sulakhe, Dandekar, Limaye, and Jamdade, 2017 * ''

Sphaerotheca pluvialis ''Sphaerotheca'' may refer to: * ''Sphaerotheca'' (frog), a genus of frogs in the family Dicroglossidae * ''Sphaerotheca'' (fungus), a genus of fungi in the family Erysiphaceae {{genus disambiguation ...

'' (Jerdon, 1853) * ''

Sphaerotheca rolandae ''Sphaerotheca rolandae'' (common names: Sri Lanka bullfrog, Roland's burrowing frog, southern burrowing frog, marble sand frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae found in Sri Lanka. It is controversial whether the species also oc ...

'' (Dubois, 1983) * ''

Sphaerotheca strachani ''Sphaerotheca'' may refer to: * ''Sphaerotheca'' (frog), a genus of frogs in the family Dicroglossidae * ''Sphaerotheca'' (fungus), a genus of fungi in the family Erysiphaceae {{genus disambiguation ...

'' (Murray, 1884) * '' Sphaerotheca swani'' (Myers and Leviton, 1956)

References

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