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Mesobatrachia

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The Mesobatrachia comprise five fossorial families, including the spadefoot toads of Europe, North America, and East Asia, the parsley frogs, and the Mexican burrowing toad, as well as one obligatorily aquatic family, the Pipidae of Africa and South America. Later studies recognised that the group was paraphyletic with respect to Neobatrachia.

The families currently accepted in the Mesobatrachia suborder are:

  • Megophryidae
  • Pelobatidae
  • Pelodytidae
  • Pipidae
  • Rhinophrynidae
  • Scaphiopodidae

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