The frog and toad families are the families of the order Anura, which AmphibiaWeb counts at 8,018 species, 88 percent of all amphibians. GBIF files 64 families under Anura, and the largest by descendant taxa are Hylidae with about 1,338, Craugastoridae with about 1,204, Microhylidae with about 1,101, Bufonidae with about 901 and Ranidae with about 854, followed by Rhacophoridae, Mantellidae, Leptodactylidae, Megophryidae, Dicroglossidae and Dendrobatidae.
All Frog and Toad Families (Anura)
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AmphibiaWeb: Amphibian Species By the Numbers
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Anura 88% 8,018 species
GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Anura
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"canonicalName":"Hylidae","vernacularName":"tree frog","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"FAMILY","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Rafinesque, C. S. (1815). Analyse de la nature ou Tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. [Book]. 1-224, (self-published) Palermo.","numDescendants":1338
Children of Anura: Craugastoridae
"canonicalName":"Craugastoridae","vernacularName":"Fleshbelly and Terrestrial-breeding Frogs","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"FAMILY","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","numDescendants":1204
Children of Anura: Microhylidae
"canonicalName":"Microhylidae","vernacularName":"Microhylids","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"FAMILY","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Günther, A. C. L. G. (1858). On the systematic arrangement of the tailless batrachians and the structure of Rhinophrynus dorsalis. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1858: 339-352.","numDescendants":1101
Children of Anura: Bufonidae
"canonicalName":"Bufonidae","vernacularName":"toad","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"FAMILY","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Gray, J. E. (1825). A synopsis of the genera of reptiles and Amphibia, with a description of some new species. Annals of Philosophy. Series 2. London. 10: 193-217.","numDescendants":901
Children of Anura: Ranidae
"canonicalName":"Ranidae","vernacularName":"true frogs","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"FAMILY","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","numDescendants":854
Children of Anura: Rhacophoridae
"canonicalName":"Rhacophoridae","vernacularName":"moss frog","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"FAMILY","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Hoffman, A. C. (1932). Researches relating to the validity of the South African Polypedatidae (Rhacophoridae) as an autonomous family of the Anura. South African Journal of Science. 29: 562-583.","numDescendants":592
Children of Anura: Mantellidae
"canonicalName":"Mantellidae","vernacularName":"Madagascar Frogs","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"FAMILY","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Laurent, R. F. (1946). Mises au point dans la taxonomie des ranide. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines. Tervuren. 39: 336-338.","numDescendants":550
Children of Anura: Leptodactylidae
"canonicalName":"Leptodactylidae","vernacularName":"Leptodactylids","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"FAMILY","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Werner, F. (1896). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Reptilien und Batrachier von Centralamerika und Chile, sowie einiger seltenerer Schlangenarten. Verhandlungen des Zoologisch-Botanischen Vereins in Wien. 46: 344-365.","numDescendants":492
Children of Anura: Megophryidae
"canonicalName":"Megophryidae","vernacularName":"Asian Toads","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"FAMILY","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Bonaparte, C. L. J. L. (1850). Conspectus Systematum. Herpetologiae et Amphibiologiae. Editio altera reformata. Lugdini Batavorum: E. J. Brill. ","numDescendants":492
Children of Anura: Dicroglossidae
"canonicalName":"Dicroglossidae","vernacularName":"Fork-tongued Frogs","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"FAMILY","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Anderson, J. (1871). A list of the reptilian accession to the Indian Museum, Calcutta from 1865 to 1870, with a description of some new species. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 40: 12-39.","numDescendants":462
Children of Anura: Dendrobatidae
"canonicalName":"Dendrobatidae","vernacularName":"Dendrobatids","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"FAMILY","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":" Natural History Review , N.S., 5 : 100","numDescendants":344
View the Source Hylidae, Wikipedia
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Hylidae is a wide-ranging family of frogs commonly referred to as "tree frogs and their allies". However, the hylids include a diversity of frog species, many of which do not live in trees, but are terrestrial or semiaquatic.
Ranidae (Wikipedia)
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Ranidae is a family of frogs, sometimes called "true frogs". They have the widest distribution of any frog family.
True toad (Wikipedia)
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A true toad is any member of the family Bufonidae, in the order Anura (frogs and toads).
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