Ranidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Ranidae
Genera (27): Abavorana – Amnirana – Amolops – Babina – Bijurana – Chalcorana – Clinotarsus – Glandirana – Huia – Humerana – Hydrophylax – Hylarana – Indosylvirana – Lithobates – Meristogenys – Nidirana – Odorrana – Papurana – Pelophylax – Pseudorana – Pterorana – Pulchrana – Rana – Sanguirana – Staurois – Sumaterana – Sylvirana – Wijayarana

Name

Ranidae Batsch, 1796: 179

Type genus: Rana Linnaeus, 1758.

Synonymy

Ranaridia Rafinesque, 1814
Ranarinia — Rafinesque, 1815
Ranae — Goldfuss, 1820
Ranadae — Gray, 1825
Ranina — Gray, 1825
Ranoidea — Fitzinger, 1826
Ranidae — Boie, 1828
Ranaria — Hemprich, 1829
Raniadae Smith, 1831
Ranina — Bonaparte, 1832
Ranae — Tschudi, 1838
Ranidae — Bonaparte, 1840
Raniformes — Duméril & Bibron, 1841
Limnodytae Fitzinger, 1843
Ranini — Bronn, 1849
Raninae — Bronn, 1849
Ranidae — Bonaparte, 1850
Ranoides — Bruch, 1862
Ranoidea — Wied-Neuwied, 1865
Ranida — Haeckel, 1866
Ranidi — Acloque, 1900
Ranoidea — Laurent, 1967
Limnodytini — Dubois, 1981
Amolopsinae Yang, 1991
Ranoidae — Dubois, 1992
Amolopinae — Zhang & Wen, 2000
Ranoidia — Dubois, 2005
Stauroini Dubois, 2005
Amolopini — Scott, 2005

References

Primary references

Batsch, A.J. 1796. Umriss der gesammten Naturgeschichte. Volume 1. Christian Ernst Gabler: Jena. 287 pp.

Additional references

Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P.E., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–370. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5781 . Reference page.
Bossuyt, F., Brown, R.M., Hillis, D.M., Cannatella, D.C. & Milinkovitch, M.C. 2006. Phylogeny and biogeography of a cosmopolitan frog radiation: Late Cretaceous diversification resulted in continent-scale endemism in the family Ranidae. Systematic Biology 55(4): 579–594. DOI: 10.1080/10635150600812551 Reference page.
Dubois, A. & Bour, R. 2010. The nomenclatural status of the nomina of amphibians and reptiles created by Garsault (1764), with a parsimonious solution to an old nomenclatural problem regarding the genus Bufo (Amphibia, Anura), comments on the taxonomy of this genus, and comments on some nomina created by Laurenti (1768). Zootaxa 2447: 001–052. Preview. Reference page.
Blackburn, D.C. & Wake, D.B. 2011. Class Amphibia Gray, 1825. Pp 39–55 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. Reference page.
Pyron, R.A. & Wiens, J.J. 2011. A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2,800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(2): 543–583. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.06.012 Reference page.
Oliver, L.A., Prendini, E., Kraus, F. & Raxworthy, C.J. 2015. Systematics and biogeography of the Hylarana frog (Anura: Ranidae) radiation across tropical Australasia, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 90: 176–192. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.05.001 Reference page.
Arifin, U., Smart, U., Hertwig, S.T., Smith, E.N., Iskandar, D.T. & Haas, A. 2018. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of a taxonomically unstable ranid from Sumatra, Indonesia, reveals a new genus with gastromyzophorous tadpoles and two new species. Zoosystematics and Evolution 94(1): 163–193. DOI: 10.3897/zse.94.22120. Reference page.
Arifin, U., Chan, K.O., Smart, U., Hertwig, S.T., Smith, E.N., Iskandar, D.T. & Haas, A. 2021. Revisiting the phylogenetic predicament of the genus Huia (Amphibia: Ranidae) using molecular data and tadpole morphology. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193(2): 673–699. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa158 Reference page.

Links

Frost, D.R. 2021. Ranidae. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1 (4 September 2021). Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001

Vernacular names

беларуская: Звычайныя жабы
català: Granota
Deutsch: Echte Frösche
English: True Frogs
suomi: Aitosammakot
Nordfriisk: Hobelfasker
עברית: צפרדעיים
magyar: Valódi békák
日本語: アカガエル科
한국어: 개구리과
norsk: Frosker
svenska: Akta grodor
ไทย: กบนา, กบแท้
Türkçe: Gerçek su kurbağaları
українська: Жаб'ячі
中文: 蛙科

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