What is Pelodryadidae?
{{Automatic taxobox | image = Litoria_xanthomera.jpg | image_caption = [[Orange-thighed frog]] | taxon = Pelodryadidae | authority = [[Albert Günther|Günther]], 1858 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text }} {{Listen | filename = Litoria microbelos single 150103 0547.mp3 | title = ''Litoria microbelos'' | alt = | description = call of ''[[Litoria microbelos]]'' }} '''Pelodryadidae''' is a [[family (biology)|family]] of frogs. They are named '''Australian treefrogs''' in English. They live in [[Australia]] and [[New Guinea]]. Human beings also [[Introduced species|brought them]] to [[New Caledonia]], [[Guam]], [[New Zealand]], and [[Vanuatu]]. Some scientists say these frogs should be called a subgroup inside the group [[Hylidae]]. They call this family Pelodryadinae.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pelodryadidae Günther, 1858 {{!}} Amphibian Species of the World|url=https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Pelodryadidae|access-date=2021-05-04|website=amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org}}</ref> Most of the frogs in Pelodryadidae [[arboreal|live in trees]] but some do not. Scienitsts think of Pelodryadidae as a sister group to the leaf frogs ([[Phyllomedusidae]]). Those frogs [[Arboreal locomotion|live in trees]] and live in [[Neotropical realm|tropical places]]. Both families of frogs came from the same ancestor frog. Scientists think this frog lived during the early [[Cenozoic]] in South America. The two groups of frogs would have become different from each other during the [[Eocene]]. The ancestors of the Pelodryadidae frogs probably went to [[Australasia]] by going to [[Antarctica]] first. At the time, Antarctica was further north and not frozen, so frogs could live there.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Duellman|first1=William E.|last2=Marion|first2=Angela B.|last3=Hedges|first3=S. Blair|date=2016-04-19|title=Phylogenetics, classification, and biogeography of the treefrogs (Amphibia: Anura: Arboranae)|url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4104.1.1|journal=Zoo