The Microhylidae, commonly known as narrow-mouthed frogs, are a geographically widespread family of frogs. The 683 species are in 57 genera and 11 subfamilies. [2]

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These odd frogs, with their exceptionally plump bodies and four tiny legs, will venture out of their burrows during the rain or on humid nights. Most narrow-mouthed frogs eat only small invertebrates (in-VER-teh-brehts), which are insects and other animals without backbones.

Most of the geographic range of the Microhylidae lies between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, with a few species exceeding these limits in North America, South America, southern Africa, and Southeast Asia.

The family Microhylidae is the fourth largest anuran family (after Hylidae, Strabomantidae, and Bufonidae), consisting of 487 currently recognized species representing 8.2% of extant anuran diversity.

The Microhylidae, commonly known as narrow-mouthed frogs, are a geographically widespread family of frogs. The 683 species are in 63 genera and 11 subfamilies, which is the largest number of genera of any frog family.

Microhyla, commonly known as the rice frogs or narrow-mouthed frogs, is a genus of frogs in the family Microhylidae. It consists of 42 species of diminutive frogs. [1] Members of this genus are widespread from Ryukyu Is. in Japan, and throughout South-east Asia, (China, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo, India and Sri Lanka). [2]

The biology of the Pe-ret' toad, Otophryne robusta (Microhylidae), with special consideration of its fossorial larva and systematic relationships. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 91(2): 137–169.

2012年12月10日 · Phylogenetic reconstructions derived from DNA sequence data have played a central role in these revisionary studies but have typically under-sampled the diverse frog family Microhylidae.

2018年9月1日 · In summary, we present a new large-scale phylogeny of microhylid frogs that should be valuable for addressing their classification and for comparative evolutionary studies. The family Microhylidae (narrow-mouthed frogs) is the third largest anuran family after Hylidae and Strabomantidae.