Terraranas
Brachycephaloidea
Brachycephaloidea (Terrarana) is a monophyletic group of frogs that includes the families: Brachycephalidae, Caligophrynidae, Craugastoridae, Eleutherodactylidae, Ceuthomantidae, Neblinaphrynidae and Strabomantidae. The superfamily contains 882 species that inhabit the New World tropics, subtropics, and Andean regions. The group has undergone extensive changes in its taxonomy thanks to multiple molecular phylogenetic analyses in recent years. Until 2008, these species were placed in a single, large family (Brachycephalidae) new analysis from 344 species were used to estimate their relationship....
8 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first · about 1,293 known species
Fleshbelly and Terrestrial-breeding Frogs
familyCraugastoridae
Rain Frogs
familyEleutherodactylidae
Saddleback Toads
familyBrachycephalidae
Sierra Frogs
genusGeobatrachus
Sonson Frogs
genusAtopophrynus
Ceuthomantidae
familyCeuthomantidae
Caligophrynidae
familyCaligophrynidae
Neblinaphrynidae
familyNeblinaphrynidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 787530.