Myobatrachidae

Myobatrachidae is a family of frogs found in Australia and New Guinea. Members of this family vary greatly in size.  There are species less than  long.  This family also has the second-largest frog in Australia, the Giant Barred Frog at  in length. The entire family either live in land or water.  None of them live in trees.

These frogs do not have the adhesive toe disc cups found in the tree frogs. The family is broken up into three sub-families: Limnodynastinae, Myobatrachinae and Rheobatrachinae. This separation is based mainly on their egg-laying habits. Those of the sub-family Limnodynastinae lay foam nests. The female makes foam with a chemical on her skin. The foam may float on top of water, or be on land. The sub-family Rheobatrachinae has the two species of gastric-brooding frog, and the rest are in the sub-family Myobatrachinae.

Taxonomy
 SubfamiliaSpeciesCommon nameBinomial nameLimnodynastinaeConsidered a family - Limnodynastidae by some authors.1Tusked FrogAdelotus 6Giant Burrowing FrogsHeleioporus  4Cannibal Frogs Lechriodus 11Australian Swamp FrogsLimnodynastes  10Stubby Frogs Neobatrachus  4Australian Spadefoot ToadsNotaden 2Burrowing FrogsOpisthodon  6Baw Baw FrogsPhiloria  MyobatrachinaeConsidered a family - Myobatrachidae by some authors.1Australian Dumpy FrogsArenophryne  1Pouched FrogsAssa  15Australian Froglets Crinia  7Ground Froglets Geocrinia  1Nicholls' Toadlets Metacrinia  8Barred Frogs Mixophyes  1Turtle FrogsMyobatrachus 1Haswell's FrogsParacrinia 13Crowned ToadletPseudophryne  1Sunset FrogSpicospina  6Australian Torrent Frogs Taudactylus  25Australian Toadlets Uperoleia  RheobatrachinaeCombined with the Myobatrachidae by some authors.2Gastric Brooding FrogsRheobatrachus 

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Category:Frogs of Australia
Category:Frogs of Oceania