| Sphaerotheca | |
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| Sphaerotheca breviceps | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Class: | Amphibia | 
| Order: | Anura | 
| Family: | Dicroglossidae | 
| Subfamily: | Dicroglossinae | 
| Genus: | Sphaerotheca Günther, 1859  | 
| Type species | |
| Sphaerotheca strigata Günther, 1859 "1858"  | |
| Species | |
| 
 11, see text.  | |
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)
 
References
- 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Sphaerotheca Günther, 1859". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
 - ↑ Deepak, P.; Dinesh, K. P.; Ohler, Annemarie; Shanker, Kartik; Channakeshavamurthy, B. H.; Ashadevi, J. S. (2020-11-26). "A new species of Sphaerotheca Günther, 1859 (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the degraded urban ecosystems of Bengaluru, Deccan Plateau, India". Zootaxa. 4885 (3): 423–436. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4885.3.6. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33311271. S2CID 229174927.
 
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