{{Short description|Genus of amphibians}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Southern Smooth Froglet (Geocrinia laevis) (8743396751).jpg | image_caption = ''Geocrinia laevis'' | taxon = Geocrinia | authority = Blake, 1973 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text | range_map = Geocrinia range.PNG | range_map_caption = Distribution of ''Geocrinia'' }}
'''''Geocrinia''''' is a genus of frogs in the family Myobatrachidae. These frogs are endemic to Australia. Two species are known from southeastern Australia (Victoria and Tasmania), while one is known from southeastern Western Australia.<ref name=Frost/><ref name="Cogger 2014"/>
All the species in this genus were at some point referred to as ''Crinia''. Further studies showed there was some considerable differences between this group of frogs and ''Crinia''. These differences included; a slightly sturdier body, smoother skin on the ventral surface and the greatest difference, the reproductive nature, laying the eggs outside of water.
Until 2022, four other species in Western Australia were also classified in this genus, but a phylogenetic study reclassified them into the new genus ''Anstisia''. Species of ''Geocrinia'' develop initially in the egg then hatch when sufficient rain falls for them to complete their larval development in water, while ''Anstisia'' go through the tadpole stage entirely on land in the egg capsule.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Webster |first=Grant N. |last2=Bool |first2=Ian |date=2022-06-14 |title=A new genus for four myobatrachid frogs from the South Western Australian Ecoregion |url=https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5154.2.2 |journal=Zootaxa |language=en |volume=5154 |issue=2 |pages=127–151 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.5154.2.2 |issn=1175-5334|doi-access=free }}</ref>
==Species== {|style="text-align:left; border:1px solid #999999; " |-style="background:#CCCC99; text-align: center; " !Common name!!Binomial name |- |-style="background:#FFFDFF;" |Smooth frog||''Geocrinia laevis'' {{small|(Günther, 1864)}} |-style="background:#EEEEEE;" |Lea's frog||''Geocrinia leai'' {{small|(J. J. Fletcher, 1898)}} |-style="background:#FFFDFF;" |Otway smooth frog||''Geocrinia sparsiflora'' {{small|Parkin ''et al''., 2023}} |-style="background:#EEEEEE;" |Eastern smooth frog||''Geocrinia victoriana'' {{small|(Boulenger, 1888)}} |- |}
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="Cogger 2014">{{cite book|author=Harold Cogger|title=Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q6XfAgAAQBAJ|date=3 March 2014|publisher=Csiro Publishing|isbn=978-0-643-10977-3|pages=87}}</ref>
<ref name=Frost>{{cite web |url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Myobatrachidae/Geocrinia |title=''Geocrinia'' Blake, 1973 |author=Frost, Darrel R. |year=2016 |work=Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |access-date=2 January 2017}}</ref> }}
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Category:Geocrinia Category:Myobatrachidae Category:Amphibian genera Category:Amphibians of Australia Category:Endemic fauna of Australia