Quasipaa
| Quasipaa | |
|---|---|
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| Quasipaa exilispinosa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | "Amphibia" (wide sense) |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Dicroglossidae |
| Subfamily: | Dicroglossinae |
| Genus: | Quasipaa Dubois, 1992 |
| Type species | |
| Rana boulengeri Günther, 1889 | |
Quasipaa is a genus of frogs in the Dicroglossidae family. The genus has no established common name, but many individual species are referred to as spiny frogs. They occur in East and Southeast Asia, from Thailand and Cambodia to southern and eastern China.[1]
Taxonomy
Quasipaa was first proposed as a subgenus of Paa (now considered to belong to Nanorana). It was subsequently raised to the level of genus, and molecular phylogenetic analyses have corroborated the monophyly of Quasipaa.[1]
Many individual species were originally described in genus Rana.[1] Even after splitting the very wide Rana into smaller taxons, frogs now in Quasipaa continued to belong to the true frog family (Ranidae), at times as subfamily Dicroglossinae, until Dicroglossinae was raised to the family level (i.e., Dicroglossidae). The taxonomy of Dicroglossidae is far from settled yet.[2]
Species
There are 11 species in this genus:[1]
- Quasipaa acanthophora Dubois and Ohler, 2009
- Quasipaa boulengeri (Günther, 1889)
- Quasipaa courtoisi (Angel, 1922)
- Quasipaa delacouri (Angel, 1928)
- Quasipaa exilispinosa (Liu and Hu, 1975)
- Quasipaa fasciculispina (Inger, 1970)
- Quasipaa jiulongensis (Huang and Liu, 1985)
- Quasipaa shini (Ahl, 1930)
- Quasipaa spinosa (David, 1875)
- Quasipaa verrucospinosa (Bourret, 1937)
- Quasipaa yei (Chen, Qu, and Jiang, 2002)
Conservation and use
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has assessed ten species of Quasipaa. One them is "Data deficient", another one "Near threatened, and the remaining ones are either "Vulnerable" or "Endangered". Quasipaa can be relatively large frogs, and many are collected for consumption. They are also threatened by habitat loss.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Frost, Darrel R. (2013). "Quasipaa Dubois, 1992". Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. (2013). "Dicroglossidae Anderson, 1871". Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
- ↑ IUCN (2013). "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>". Retrieved 15 December 2013.