Hyloidea

Hyloidea is a superfamily of frogs. Hyloidea accounts for 54% of all living anuran species. The superfamily Hyloidea branched off from its closest relative, the Australobatrachia, during the mid-Cretaceous. The fossil evidence found during the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event could not determine the effects upon the frogs, due to the lack of fossils. Increased forestation erupted after this extinction, possibly leading to more arboreal adaptations of these anurans to be best suited for this habitat.

==Taxonomy== Hyloidea contains the following subgroups: Allophrynidae – Tukeit Hill frogs (3 species) Alsodidae – (26 species) Batrachylidae – (14 species) Bufonidae – true toads and harlequin frogs (700 species) Brachycephaloidea Brachycephalidae – saddleback toads, flea toads and big-headed frogs (79 species) Caligophrynidae Fouquet et al., 2023 (1 species) Ceuthomantidae – emerald-barred frogs Heinicke et al., 2009 (4 species) Craugastoridae – fleshbelly frogs, northern rain frogs, and robber frogs (129 species) Eleutherodactylidae – robber frogs (241 species) Neblinaphrynidae Fouquet et al., 2023 (1 species) Strabomantidae Hedges, Duellman, and Heinecke, 2008 (800 species) Centrolenidae – glass frogs (155 species) Ceratophryidae – common horned frogs, pacman frogs, and water frogs (12 species) Cycloramphidae – glass frogs (36 species) Dendrobatoidea Dendrobatidae – poison frogs (194 species) Aromobatidae – cryptic forest frogs (121 species) Hemiphractidae – (112 species) Hylidae – tree frogs and leaf frogs (1036 species) Hylodidae – (47 species) Leptodactylidae – southern frogs (206 species) Odontophrynidae – (53 species) Rhinodermatidae – '''Darwin's frogs or mouth-brooding frogs (3 species) Telmatobiidae – water frogs' (63 species)