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Nidirana Mangveni
''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. Species The following species are recognized within ''Nidirana'': * '' Nidirana adenopleura'' (Boulenger, 1909) * '' Nidirana chapaensis'' (Bourret, 1937) * '' Nidirana chongqingensis'' Ma & Wang, 2023 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 * '' 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kampira Falls Frog
The Kampira Falls frog (''Nidirana okinavana''), also known as the Yaeyama harpist frog or harpist brown frog, is a species in the true frog family ( Ranidae). Until recently known as ''Rana psaltes'', it is found on Ishigaki and Iriomote in the Yaeyama Islands of Japan, as well as on Taiwan.Matsui, Masafumi (2007): Unmasking ''Rana okinavana'' Boettger, 1895 from the Ryukyus, Japan (Amphibia: Anura: Ranidae). '' Zool. Sci.'' 24: 199–204. (HTML abstract) It is a mid-sized, stout brown frog, with a distinctive suprabrachial gland and a fold of skin running from the shoulders to the hips. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, freshwater marshes, and canals and ditches. It is threatened by habitat loss. Taxonomy This frog has a confusing taxonomic history which is entwined with that of the Ryūkyū brown frog. Oskar Boettger described a frog species from the RyūkyŠ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |