Sphaerotheca Günther 1859

Sphaerotheca is a genus of true frogs. They can be found in South Asia. Molecular data suggest that they are closely related to Fejervarya, perhaps as a monophyletic group within a paraphyletic Fejervarya.^[1]

Species

There are currently 11 described species in Sphaerotheca:^[1]

• Spaerotheca bengaluru Deepak, Dinesh, Ohler, Shanker, Channakeshavamurthy & Ashadevi, 2020^[2]
• Sphaerotheca breviceps (Schneider, 1799)
• Sphaerotheca dobsoni (Boulenger, 1882)
• Sphaerotheca leucorhynchus (Rao, 1937)
• Sphaerotheca magadha Prasad, Dinesh, Das, Swamy, Shinde, and Vishnu, 2019
• Sphaerotheca maskeyi (Schleich and Anders, 1998)
• Sphaerotheca pashchima Padhye, Dahanukar, Sulakhe, Dandekar, Limaye, and Jamdade, 2017
• Sphaerotheca pluvialis (Jerdon, 1853)
• Sphaerotheca rolandae (Dubois, 1983)
• Sphaerotheca strachani (Murray, 1884)
• Sphaerotheca swani (Myers and Leviton, 1956)

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