Hylarana

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Hylarana
A bronzed frog (Hylarana temporalis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: "Amphibia" (wide sense)
Order: Anura
Family: Ranidae
Subfamily: Raninae
Genus: Hylarana
Tschudi, 1838
Type species
Hyla erythraea
Schlegel, 1837
Synonyms[1]
  • Amnirana Dubois, 1992
  • Chalcorana Dubois, 1992
  • Hydrophylax Fitzinger, 1843
  • Hylorana Günther, 1864
  • Limnodytes Duméril and Bibron, 1841
  • Papurana Dubois, 1992
  • Pulchrana Dubois, 1992
  • Sylvirana Dubois, 1992
  • Tenuirana Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990
  • Tylerana Dubois, 1992
  • Zoodioctes Gistel, 1848

Hylarana is a widespread genus of true frogs found in tropical Africa, Asia, and Australia. It includes around 86 species.

Taxonomy

Hylarana was previously considered to be a subgenus of the genus Rana. It was recognized as a distinct genus in 2005.[2][3] Several genera were further split from Hylarana in 2006, but are now treated again as junior synonyms of Hylarana.[1]

Hylarana belongs to the subfamily Raninae of the true frog family Ranidae.[1]

Distribution

Species of Hylarana are found from Sri Lanka to the Western Ghats of India, through Nepal and southern China and Taiwan, down to Southeast Asia to the Philippines and Papua New Guinea, and in Northern Australia. They are also found in tropical Africa.[3]

Species

Hylarana currently contains around 86 species, they are:[1][3][4]

Hylarana malabarica
Hylarana taipehensis

See also


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Darrel Frost and the American Museum of Natural History. "Hylarana Tschudi, 1838". Amphibian Species of the World 5.5, an Online Reference. 
  2. Liqiao Chen, Robert W. Murphy, Amy Lathrop, Andre Ngo, Nikolai L. Orlov, Cuc Tho Ho, & Ildiko L. M. Somorjai (2005). "Taxonomic Chaos in Asian Ranid Frogs: An Initial Phylogenetic Resolution". Herpetological Journal 15: 231243. ISSN 1175-5334. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Anna Gawor, Ralf Hendrix, Miguel Vences, Wolfgang Böhme, & Thomas Ziegler (2009). "Larval morphology in four species of Hylarana from Vietnam and Thailand with comments on the taxonomy of H. nigrovittata sensu lato (Anura: Ranidae)". Zootaxa (Magnola Press) 2051: 125. ISSN 1175-5334. 
  4. Ramlah Zainudin, Mustafa A. Rahman, Badrul Munir M. Zain, M.N. Shukor, R.F. Inger, & A. Norhayati (2010). "Mating Calls Description of Five Species of Frogs from the Genus Hylarana Tschudi 1838 (Amphibia, Anura, Ranidae) from Sarawak, Malaysia". Sains Malaysiana 39 (3): 363369. 
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