Nyctibatrachidae is a small family of frogs found in the Western Ghats of India and in Sri Lanka.

[2] Recognition of Nyctibatrachidae as a family is fairly recent.

These frogs were previously placed in the broadly defined family Ranidae, which was more recently divided into three subfamilies: Lankanectinae, Nyctibatrachinae, and Astrobatrachinae.

They occur in near streams in hilly evergreen forests.

Lankanectes is an aquatic species of slow-moving rivers in marshy areas.