''Minervarya'' is a genus of frogs in the family
Dicroglossidae
The frog family Dicroglossidae occurs in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia and Africa, with most genera and species being found in Asia. The common name of the family is fork-tongued frogs.
The Dicroglossidae were previously considered to ...
from south Asia (Sri Lanka, the
Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a list of the physiographic regions of the world, physiographical region in United Nations geoscheme for Asia#Southern Asia, Southern Asia. It is situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian O ...
including Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh), and Nepal and Bhutan. They are also known as cricket frogs or rice frogs.
Taxonomy
The genus ''Minervarya'' was erected to resolve the
paraphyly
In taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's last common ancestor and most of its descendants, excluding a few monophyletic subgroups. The group is said to be paraphyletic ''with respect to'' the excluded subgroups. In co ...
of the genus ''
Fejervarya
''Fejervarya'' is a genera of frogs in the family Dicroglossidae found in Asia. First proposed in 1915 by István József Bolkay, a Hungarian naturalist, the genus did not see widespread adoption at first. As late as the 1990s it was generally i ...
'' which until 2022, encompassed the species now found in ''Minervarya''. This split was originally proposed in 2018 using the name ''Zakerana'', which is now recognised as a junior synonym to the name ''Minervarya''.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus ''Minervarya'':
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Minervarya agricola''
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Minervarya andamanensis''
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Minervarya asmati''
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Minervarya brevipalmata''
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Minervarya cepfi''
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Minervarya charlesdarwini
''Minervarya charlesdarwini'' (vernacular name: Charles Darwin's frog) is a species of frogs in the family Dicroglossidae. It is endemic to the Andaman Islands, India, and is known from the South Andaman Island, Long Island, and North Andaman Is ...
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Minervarya chiangmaiensis''
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Minervarya chilapata''
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Minervarya goemchi''
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Minervarya gomantaki''
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Minervarya greenii''
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Minervarya kadar''
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Minervarya kalinga''
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Minervarya keralensis''
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Minervarya kirtisinghei''
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Minervarya krishnan''
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Minervarya manoharani''
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Minervarya marathi''
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Minervarya muangkanensis''
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Minervarya mysorensis''
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Minervarya neilcoxi''
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Minervarya nepalensis''
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Minervarya nicobariensis''
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Minervarya nilagirica''
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Minervarya pentali''
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Minervarya pierrei''
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Minervarya rufescens''
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Minervarya sahyadris''
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Minervarya sengupti''
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Minervarya syhadrensis''
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Minervarya teraiensis''
References
Amphibians of Asia
Amphibian genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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