Torrent frog

Torrent frogs are a number of unrelated frogs that prefer to inhabit small rapid-flowing mountain or hill streams with a lot of torrents. They are generally smallish neobatrachians with a greyish-brown and usually darkly mottled back, giving them excellent camouflage among wet rocks overgrown with algae; their well-developed feet make them agile climbers of slippery rocks.

Torrent frogs belong to the following taxa:

• The "torrent frogs" of Asia are certain species in various ranoid genera: Amolops, Huia, Odorrana (all Ranidae), Micrixalus, (Micrixalidae) and Nanorana (Dicroglossidae).
• The "torrent frogs" of Africa are the genera Arthroleptides, Petropedetes (both family Petropedetidae) and Odontobatrachus (Odontobatrachidae), which are found in eastern Africa, central Africa and western Africa, respectively.^[1]
• The "torrent frogs" of Australia are the genus Taudactylus of the Australian ground frog family (Myobatrachidae).
• The torrent treefrog (Litoria nannotis) of Australia is in the tree frog family (Hylidae)

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  Black torrent frog
  Micrixalus saxicola
  Ranidae
  India
• 
  Eungella torrent frog
  Taudactylus eungellensis
  Myobatrachidae
  Australia
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  Torrent treefrog
  Litoria nannotis
  Hylidae
  Australia

• Grass frog (disambiguation)
• Green frog (disambiguation)
• Rocket frog (disambiguation)
• Tree frog
• Torrent salamander

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