Sphaerotheca (frog) explained

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 ^[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)
• Sphaerotheca varshaabhu (Deepak et al., 2024) ^{[3] [4]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sphaerotheca Günther, 1859 . Frost, Darrel R. . 2014 . Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 . American Museum of Natural History . 2 March 2014.
2. 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. en. 4885. 3. 423–436. 10.11646/zootaxa.4885.3.6. 33311271. 229174927. 1175-5334.
3. P. Deepak, K.P. Dinesh, K.S. Chetan Nag, Annemarie Ohler, Kartik Shanker, Princia D Souza, Vishal Kumar Prasad and J.S. Ashadevi. 2024. Discovery and Description of A New Species of Burrowing Frog Sphaerotheca Günther, 1859 (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the suburban landscapes of Bengaluru, India. Zootaxa. 5405(3); 381-410. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5405.3.3
4. Web site: Desk . NewsDrum . New species of burrowing frog named 'Sphaerotheca Varshaabhu' discovered in Bengaluru . 2024-01-31 . www.newsdrum.in . en.