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Ceratophryidae

Family of amphibians

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This is my pet Argentine Horned Frog (Ceratophrys ornata) I took this photo my self in my Dorm room.
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Some species (especially from the genera Ceratophrys and Lepidobatrachus) are popular in herpetoculture.

The oldest fossils of the family are known from the Miocene epoch. The fossil giant frog Beelzebufo from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar was formerly considered to belong to this family, but is now excluded, but is possibly closely related, alongside Baurubatrachus from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. Wawelia from the Miocene of Argentina is no longer considered closely related.

Taxonomy

Placement of this clade has varied considerably over time, having been a subfamily within the Leptodactylidae for a long while. Later on, it has been raised to family level, either broadly defined, including the Telmatobiidae and Batrachylidae (as subfamilies Telmatobiinae and Batrachylinae, respectively), or as now is commonly accepted, as a smaller family with three genera.

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