Leptobrachiinae Dubois, 1980

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Leptobrachiinae
190 species

Leptobrachiini Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 471. Type genus: Leptobrachium Tschudi, 1838.

Leptobrachiinae — Dubois, 1983, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 52: 272; Dubois, 1983, Alytes, 2: 147; Mahony, Foley, Biju, and Teeling, 2017, Mol. Biol. Evol., 34: 752.

Oreolalaxinae Tian and Hu, 1985, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 4 (3): 221. Type genus: Oreolalax Myers and Leviton, 1962. Considered a synonym of Leptobrachiinae by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 173–174; Fei and Ye, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 56.

Oreolalaginae — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 173–174. Justified emendation.

Leptolalaginae Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 13. Type genus: Leptolalax Dubois, 1980. 

English Names

Pseudomoustache Toads (Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 449). 

Spade Foot Frogs (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 5).

Distribution

India and adjacent Nepal and Bhutan through Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Indochina to the Sunda Islands, southern China and the Philippines. 

Comment

See discussion under Megophryidae. 

Contained taxa (190 sp.):

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