Rain frogs
Brevicipitidae
Brevicipitidae or rain frogs is a small family of frogs found in eastern and southern Africa. As of November 2013 contains 34 species in 5 genera. Formerly included as subfamily in Microhylidae (narrow-mouth frogs), phylogenetic research has indicated the brevicipitine frogs should be considered as a family with Hemisotidae (shovelnose frogs) as the most closely related sister taxon.
5 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 38 known species
Rain Frogs
genusBreviceps
Warty Frogs
genusCallulina
Big-fingered Frogs
genusProbreviceps
Balebreviceps
genusBalebreviceps
Spelaeophryne
genusSpelaeophryne
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 64729.