Ceratobatrachinae Boulenger, 1884

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ceratobatrachidae > Subfamily: Ceratobatrachinae
90 species

Ceratobatrachidae Boulenger, 1884, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1884: 212. Type genus: Ceratobatrachus Boulenger, 1884.

Ceratobatrachinae — Gadow, 1901, Amphibia and Reptiles: 139, 237; Dubois, Ohler, and Biju, 2001, Alytes, 19: 55; Dubois, 2005, Alytes, 23: 16; Scott, 2005, Cladistics, 21: 525.

Cornuferinae Noble, 1931, Biol. Amph.: 521. Type genus: Cornufer Tschudi, 1838. See nomenclatural note under the Cornufer Tschudi record. 

Platymantinae Savage, 1973, in Vial (ed.), Evol. Biol. Anurans: 354. Type genus: Platymantis Günther, 1859.

Ceratobatrachini — Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 231.

Ceratobatracheidae — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 235. Apofamily. 

Ceratobatrachinae — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 235. Subfamily. 

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Philippines, Borneo, New Guinea, Admiralty, Bismarck, Solomon Islands, and Fiji. 

Geographics occurrence

Natural resident: Fiji, Indonesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands

Comment

The sister taxon of Alcalinae according to  Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos, and Cannatella, 2015, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 174: 130-168. 

Contained taxa (90 sp.):

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