''Sphaerotheca'' is a genus of frogs in the 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 ...

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

Fejervarya ''Fejervarya'' is a genus 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 ...

''. Ecologically, they are burrowing frogs.

Species

There are currently 9 recognized species in ''Sphaerotheca'': * '' Sphaerotheca 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 Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred t ...

'' (Schneider, 1799) * '' Sphaerotheca dobsoni'' (Boulenger, 1882) * '' Sphaerotheca leucorhynchus'' (Rao, 1937) * '' Sphaerotheca maskeyi'' (Schleich and Anders, 1998) * '' Sphaerotheca pluvialis'' (Jerdon, 1853) * '' Sphaerotheca rolandae'' (Dubois, 1983) * '' Sphaerotheca strachani'' (Murray, 1884) * '' Sphaerotheca varshaabhu'' Deepak, Dinesh, Chetan Nag, Ohler, Shanker, Souza, Prasad, and Ashadevi, 2024 The status of '' Sphaerotheca swani'' is disputed, with Deepak and colleagues (2024) arguing for its recognition (as is done by

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), whereas it is considered a synonym of ''

'' by the Amphibian Species of the World.

References

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