Nidirana
| Nidirana | |
|---|---|
| Kampira Falls frog (N. okinavana) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Ranidae |
| Genus: | Dubois, 1992 |
| Species | |
|
See text | |
Nidirana is a genus of true frogs (Ranidae) from East and Southeast Asia. They are commonly known as music frogs. This genus contains numerous species that were formerly classified in the genus Babina, which is thought to be its sister genus.[1][2]
Species
The following species are recognized within Nidirana:[1]
- Nidirana adenopleura (Boulenger, 1909)
- Nidirana cangshanensis Liu, Hou & Rao, 2025[3]
- Nidirana chapaensis (Bourret, 1937)
- Nidirana chongqingensis Ma & Wang, 2023 [4]
- Nidirana daunchina (Chang, 1933)
- Nidirana guangdongensis Lyu, Wan, and Wang, 2020
- Nidirana guangxiensis Mo, Lyu, Huang, Liao, and Wang, 2021
- Nidirana hainanensis (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2007)
- Nidirana leishanensis Li, Wei, Xu, Cui, Fei, Jiang, Liu, and Wang, 2019
- Nidirana lini (Chou, 1999)
- Nidirana mangveni Lyu, Qi, and Y.-y. Wang, 2020
- Nidirana nankunensis Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Lin, Liu, and Wang, 2017
- Nidirana occidentalis Lyu, Yang, and Wang, 2020
- Nidirana okinavana (Boettger, 1895)
- Nidirana pleuraden (Boulenger, 1904)
- Nidirana shiwandashanensis Chen, Peng, Li, and Liu, 2022
- Nidirana shyhhuangi C.-F. Lin, Chang, Matsui, Shen, Tominaga & S.-M. Lin, 2025[5]
- Nidirana xiangica Lyu and Wang, 2020
- Nidirana yaoica Lyu, Mo, Wan, Li, Pang, and Wang, 2019
- Nidirana yeae Wei, Li, Liu, Cheng, Xu, and Wang, 2020
- Nidirana noadihing Boruah, Deepak & Das, 2023[6]
References
- ^ a b "Nidirana Dubois, 1992 | Amphibian Species of the World". amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
- ^ "AmphibiaWeb Search". amphibiaweb.org. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
- ^ Shuo Liu, Mian Hou and Dingqi Rao. 2025. A New Species of the Genus Nidirana Dubois, 1992 (Anura: Ranidae) from Yunnan Province, China. Ecologica Montenegrina. 83; 175-190. DOI: doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.83.18
- ^ Ma Q. and Z. Wang. 2023. A New Species of Nidirana Dubois, 1992 (Anura, Ranidae) from Chongqing Municipality, China. Biodiversity Data Journal. 11: e101986. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.11.e101986
- ^ Chun-Fu Lin, Chunwen Chang, Masafumi Matsui, Chin-Chia Shen, Atsushi Tominaga and Si-Min Lin. 2025. Description of A New Music Frog (Anura, Ranidae, Nidirana) critically endangered in Taiwan. ZooKeys. 1229: 245-273. DOI: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1229.139344
- ^ Bitupan Boruah, V. Deepak and Abhijit Das. 2023. Musicians in the Marsh: A New Species of Music Frog (Anura: Ranidae: Nidirana) from Arunachal Pradesh, India. Zootaxa. 5374(1); 51-73. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5374.1.3