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==Families== {| class="wikitable" |colspan="100%" align="center" bgcolor="#BBBBFF"|'''[[Archaeobatrachia]]''' - four families, seven genera, 27 species |- !Family!!Genera!!Common names!!Example species!!Width=100 px|Example photo |- |[[Ascaphidae]] <br><small>([[species:Géza Gyula Fejérváry|Fejérváry]], 1923)</small> ||1||Tailed frogs||[[Tailed frog]] (''Ascaphus truei'')|| [[Image:Tailed frog.gif|100px|]] |- |[[Bombinatoridae]]<br><small>([[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1825)</small>||2||Fire-belly toads||[[European fire-bellied toad]] (''Bombina bombina'')||[[Image:Bombina bombina 1 (Marek Szczepanek).jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Alytidae]]<br><small>([[Leopold Fitzinger|Fitzinger]], 1843)</small>||3||Painted frogs or disc-tongued frogs||Portuguese or [[Iberian painted frog]] (''Discoglossus galganoi'')||[[Image:Discoglossus galganoi rechts.jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Leiopelmatidae]]<br><small>([[St. George Jackson Mivart|Mivart]], 1869)</small>||1||New Zealand primitive frogs||[[Hochstetters frog]] (''Leiopelma hochstetteri'')|| [[Image:Hochstetters Frog on Moss.jpg|100px|]] |- |colspan="100%" align="center" bgcolor="#BBBBFF"|'''[[Mesobatrachia]]''' - six families, 21 genera, 168 species |- !Family!!Genera!!Common names!!Example species!!Example photo |- |[[Megophryidae]] <br><small>([[Charles Lucien Bonaparte|Bonaparte]], 1850)</small>||12||Litter frogs or short-legged toads ||[[Long-nosed horned frog]] (''Megophrys nasuta'')||[[Image:Megophrys.nasuta.7035.jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Pelobatidae]] <br><small>([[Charles Lucien Bonaparte|Bonaparte]], 1850)</small>||1||European spadefoot toads||[[Common spadefoot]] (''Pelobates fuscus'')||[[Image:Pelobates fuscus 2 (Marek Szczepanek).jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Pelodytidae]] <br><small>([[Charles Lucien Bonaparte|Bonaparte]], 1850)</small>||1||Parsley frogs||[[Common parsley frog]] (''Pelodytes punctatus'')||[[Image:Pelodytes punctatus side.jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Pipidae]] <br><small>([[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1825)</small>||4||Tongueless frogs or clawed frogs||[[African dwarf frog]] (''Hymenochirus boettgeri'')||[[Image:Amplexus of ADF.jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Rhinophrynidae]] <br><small>([[Albert Günther|Günther]], 1859)</small>||1||Mexican burrowing toad||[[Mexican burrowing toad]] (''Rhinophrynus dorsalis'')|| [[Image:Rhinophrynus dorsalis.jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Scaphiopodidae]] <br><small>([[Edward Drinker Cope|Cope]], 1865)</small>||2||American spadefoot toads||[[Spea hammondii|Western spadefoot toad]] (''Spea hammondii'')||[[Image:Spea hammondii 1.jpg|100px|]] |- |colspan="100%" align="center" bgcolor="#BBBBFF"|'''[[Neobatrachia]]''' - 26 families, 351 genera, more than 5,000 species |- !Family!!Genera!!Common names!!Example species!!Example photo |- |[[Allophrynidae]] <br><small>([[Coleman Jett Goin|Goin]], [[Olive Bown Goin|Goin]], and [[George Zug|Zug]], 1978)</small>||1||Tukeit Hill frog||[[Tukeit Hill frog]] (''Allophryne ruthveni'')|| - |- |[[Amphignathodontidae]] <br><small>([[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1882)</small>||2||Marsupial frogs||[[Gastrotheca|Marsupial frog]] (''Gastrotheca excubitor'')|| [[File:Gastrotheca excubitor.jpg|100px]] |- |[[Arthroleptidae]] <br><small>([[St. George Jackson Mivart|Mivart]], 1869)</small>||8||Screeching frogs or squeakers ||[[Buea screeching frog]] (''Arthroleptis variabilis'')||[[File:Buea Screeching Frog (Arthroleptis variabilis) (7706657930).jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Brachycephalidae]] <br><small>([[Albert Günther|Günther]], 1858) </small>||2||Saddleback toads||[[Pumpkin toadlet]] (''Brachycephalus ephippium'')|||[[File:Brachycephalus ephippium02.jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Brevicipitidae]]<br><small>[[Charles Lucien Bonaparte|(Bonaparte]], 1850)</small> ||5||Rain frogs||[[Cape rain frog]] (''Breviceps gibbosus'')|||[[File:Breviceps gibbosus Cape Rain Froga - Cape Town 2.JPG|100px]] |- |[[Bufonidae]] <br><small>([[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1825)</small>||52||True toads||[[Common toad]] (''Bufo bufo'')||[[Image:Bufo bufo couple during migration(2005).jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Centrolenidae]] <br><small>([[Edward Harrison Taylor|Taylor]], 1951)</small>||12||Glass frogs||[[Bare-hearted glass frog]] (''Hyalinobatrachium colymbiphyllum'')||[[File:Cricket Glass Frog - Hylinobatrachium colymbiphyllum Plantation Road.jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Dendrobatidae]] <br><small>([[Edward Drinker Cope|Cope]], 1865)</small>||16||Poison dart frogs||[[Yellow-banded poison dart frog]] (''Dendrobates leucomelas'')||[[Image:Gelbgebänderter Baumsteiger Dendrobates leucomelas.jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Dicroglossidae]] <br><small>[[John Anderson (zoologist)|Anderson]], 1871</small>||14||Forked-tongue frogs||[[Lesser spiny frog]] (''Quasipaa exilispinosa'') ||[[File:Paa exilispinosa.jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Eleutherodactylidae]] <br><small>(Lutz, 1954)</small>||4||Rain frogs||[[Cliff chirping frog]] (''Eleutherodactylus marnockii'')||[[Image:Eleutherodactylus marnockii2.jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Heleophrynidae]] <br><small>([[Gladwyn Kingsley Noble|Noble]], 1931)</small>||2||Ghost frogs||[[Natal ghost frog]] (''Heleophryne natalensis'')||[[File:Hadromophryne natalensis.jpeg|100px|]] |- |[[Hemiphractidae]] <br><small>[[Wilhelm Karl Hartwich Peters|Peters]], 1862</small>||4||Horned treefrogs, backpack frogs||Banded horned treefrog (''[[Hemiphractus fasciatus]]'')||[[File:Hemiphractus fasciatus panamajuly2011 (2).jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Hemisotidae]] <br><small>([[Edward Drinker Cope|Cope]], 1867) </small>||1||Shovelnose frogs||[[Marbled snout-burrower]] or mottled shovelnose frog (''Hemisus marmoratus'')||[[File:Hemisus marmoratus.jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Hylidae]] <br><small>([[Constantine Samuel Rafinesque|Rafinesque]], 1815)</small>||58||Tree frogs||[[White's tree frog]] (''Litoria caerulea'')||[[Image:Australia green tree frog (Litoria caerulea) crop.jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Hyperoliidae]] <br><small>([[Raymond Laurent|Laurent]], 1943)</small>||17||Sedge frogs or bush frogs||[[Big-eyed tree frog]] (''Leptopelis vermiculatus'')||[[Image:Leptopelis vermiculatus2.jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Leptodactylidae]] <br><small>([[Franz Werner|Werner]], 1896)</small>||13||Southern frogs or tropical frogs||[[Hispaniolan ditch frog]] (''Leptodactylus albilabris'')||[[File:Leptodactylus albilabris.jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Mantellidae]] <br><small>([[Raymond Laurent|Laurent]], 1946)</small>||12||-||[[Golden mantella]] (''Mantella aurantiaca'')||[[Image:Golden mantella.JPG|100px|]] |- |[[Micrixalidae]] <br><small>{{interlanguage link multi|Alain Dubois|fr|lt=Dubois}}, [[Annemarie Ohler|Ohler]], and [[Sathyabhama Das Biju|Biju]], 2001</small>||1||Dancing frogs||[[Black torrent frog]] (''Micrixalus saxicola'')||[[File:Micrixalus saxicola.jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Microhylidae]] <br><small>([[Albert Günther|Günther]], 1858)</small>||57||Narrow-mouthed frogs||[[Eastern narrow-mouthed toad]] (''Gastrophryne carolinensis'')||[[Image:Gastrophryne_carolinensis.jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Myobatrachidae]] <br><small>([[Hermann Schlegel|Schlegel]] ''In'' [[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1850)</small>||14||Australian ground frogs||[[Great barred frog]] (''Mixophyes fasciolatus'')||[[Image:M fasciolatus.jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Nyctibatrachidae]] <br><small>[[Rose Marie Antoinette Blommers-Schlösser|Blommers-Schlösser]], 1993</small>||3||Robust frogs, night frogs||[[Beddome's night frog]] (''Nyctibatrachus beddomii'')||[[File:Nyctibatrachus beddomii.jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Ranidae]] <br><small>([[Constantine Samuel Rafinesque|Rafinesque]], 1814)</small>||24||True frogs||[[American bullfrog]] (''Lithobates catesbeianus'')||[[Image:North-American-bullfrog1.jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Ranixalidae]] <br><small>{{interlanguage link multi|Alain Dubois|fr|lt=Dubois}}, 1987</small>||2||Leaping frogs||[[Amboli leaping frog]] {''Indirana chiravasi'')||[[File:Davidraju Amboli-Indirana 1.jpg|100px|]] |- |[[Rhacophoridae]] <br><small>([[Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg|Hoffman]], 1932)</small>||23||Moss frogs||[[Malabar gliding frog]] (''Rhacophorus malabaricus'')||[[Image:Rhacophorus amplexus.jpg|100px]] |- |[[Rhinodermatidae]] <br><small>([[Charles Lucien Bonaparte|Bonaparte]], 1850)</small>||2||Darwin's frogs||[[Darwin's frog]] (''Rhinoderma darwinii'')|| [[Image:Rhinoderma darwinii.jpg|100px]] |- |[[Sooglossidae]] <br><small>([[Gladwyn Kingsley Noble|Noble]], 1931)</small>||2||Seychelles frogs||[[Gardiner's Seychelles frog]] (''Sooglossus gardineri'')|| [[File:Sechellophryne gardineri.jpg|100px]] |- |}
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