Limnonectes | |
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Fanged river frog (Limnonectes macrodon) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Dicroglossidae |
Subfamily: | Dicroglossinae |
Genus: | Limnonectes Fitzinger, 1843 |
Species | |
More than 90, see text | |
Synonyms | |
Taylorana Dubois, 1986 |
Limnonectes is a genus of fork-tongued frogs of 91 known species, but new ones are still being described occasionally.[1][2] They are collectively known as fanged frogs because they tend to have unusually large teeth, which are small or absent in other frogs.