show Abstracthide AbstractSpiny frogs (Paini, Dicroglossidae) are a characteristic element of the Himalaya-Tibet orogenic system, occurring from northern Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northern India, through Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan, and in the valleys of southern and eastern Tibet, eastwards to eastern China, and southwards to the mountains of Indochina (Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, northern Vietnam. To obtain a robust and well-resolved phylogeny we capture and sequence a large set of transcriptome-derived markers using target enrichment.