Natatanura
| Natatanura | |
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| Australian wood frog | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Superfamily: | Ranoidea |
| Clade: | Natatanura Frost et al., 2006 |
| Families | |
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Natatanura is a clade of frogs in the suborder Neobatrachia. The group has a cosmopolitan distribution and is found on every continent except Antarctica. It is the sister clade to Afrobatrachia within the superfamily Ranoidea.[1][2][3]
The group includes the most widely distributed frog family Ranidae, as well as the largest extant species of frog, the goliath frog in the family Conrauidae.
Taxonomy
Families:
- Ceratobatrachidae
- Conrauidae - slippery frogs, giant frogs
- Dicroglossidae – fork-tongued frogs
- Micrixalidae – dancing frogs
- Mantellidae – Malagasy frogs
- Nyctibatrachidae – night frogs
- Odontobatrachidae
- Petropedetidae – torrent frogs
- Phrynobatrachidae – puddle frogs
- Ptychadenidae – grassland frogs
- Pyxicephalidae
- Ranidae – true frogs
- Ranixalidae – Indian frogs
- Rhacophoridae – shrub frogs, bush frogs, moss frogs
References
- ↑ "Phylogenomics reveals rapid, simultaneous diversification of three major clades of Gondwanan frogs at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary". Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). Retrieved 12 April 2026.
- ↑ "Mitochondrial genomes for the Afrobatrachian Hyperolius substriatus (Anura: Hyperoliidae) obtained from museum specimens". ResearchGate. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
- ↑ "The Amphibian Tree of Life". BioOne Digital Library. Retrieved 12 April 2026.