Tree Frog - Family

Family

Tree frogs are members of these families or genera:

  • Hylidae, or "true" tree frogs, occur in the temperate to tropical parts of Eurasia north of the Himalayas, Australia and the Americas.
  • Rhacophoridae, or shrub frogs, are the tree frogs of tropical regions around the Indian Ocean: Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia east to Lydekker's line. A few also occur in East Asia.
  • Centrolenidae, or glass frogs, are potentially closely related to hylids; these translucent frogs are native to Central and South America.
  • Hyperoliidae, or reed frogs, are closely related to the burrowing Microhylidae; these small frogs are native to sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Boophis is a genus of highly arboreal frogs which evolved from the toxic terrestrial Mantellidae of Madagascar.
  • Pedostibes, or tree toad, is a genus of highly arboreal members of the typically terrestrial Bufonidae.

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