The frog family Dicroglossidae occurs in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia and Africa, with most genera and species being found in Asia. The common name of the family is fork-tongued frogs.
The Dicroglossidae were previously considered to be a subfamily in the family Ranidae, but their position as a family is now well established.
The two subfamilies contain 231 species in 13âÂÂ15 genera, depending on the source.
Dicroglossinae <small>Anderson, 1871</small> â 211 species in 13 genera:
Occidozyginae <small>Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990</small> â 20 species in two genera:
The following phylogeny of Dicroglossidae is from Pyron & Wiens (2011) with the split of Euphlyctis sensu lato based on Yadav et al. (2024). Dicroglossidae is a sister group of Ranixalidae.