''Minervarya'' is a genus of frogs in the family
Dicroglossidae 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
''Minervarya asmati'' (Bangladeshi cricket frog) is a species of frogs found in the Chittagong and Dhaka, Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most ...
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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
''Minervarya'' is a genus of frogs in the family Dicroglossidae from south Asia (Sri Lanka, the Indian subcontinent including Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh), and Nepal and Bhutan. They are also known as cricket frogs or rice frogs.
Taxonomy
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Minervarya gomantaki''
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Minervarya greenii''
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Minervarya kadar''
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Minervarya kalinga
''Minervarya'' is a genus of frogs in the family Dicroglossidae from south Asia (Sri Lanka, the Indian subcontinent including Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh), and Nepal and Bhutan. They are also known as cricket frogs or rice frogs.
Taxonomy
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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
''Minervarya mysorensis'' (Mysore frog) is a species of frog that is endemic to the Western Ghats, India. It is only known from its type locality, Jog in Shimoga district, Karnataka
Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is ...
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Minervarya neilcoxi''
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Minervarya nepalensis
''Minervarya nepalensis'' (Nepal cricket frog or Nepal warty frog) is a small-sized frog native to northern and northeastern India, Bangladesh, and Nepal. It has recently been reported also from Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ ...
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Minervarya nicobariensis
''Minervarya nicobariensis'', the Nicobar frog or Nicobar cricket-frog, is a species of frog endemic to the Nicobar Islands of India. In the past it has been considered to be the same species as '' Fejervarya andamanensis'' from the neighbouring ...
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Minervarya nilagirica
''Minervarya nilagirica'', commonly known as Nilgiris wart frog, or Nilgiris frog, is a species of frog that is endemic to India.
Description
''Minervarya nilagirica'' has a relatively large size compared to the other species in its genus.
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Minervarya pentali
''Minervarya pentali'', or Pental's Minervaryan frog, is a species of frog in the fork-tongued frog family, Dicroglossidae. It is endemic to the Western Ghats in India.
Etymology
The species is named ''pentali'' after Deepak Pental, plant gene ...
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Minervarya pierrei
''Minervarya pierrei'' (Pierre's wart frog, Pierre's cricket frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. It is found in Nepal, adjacent India, and eastern Bangladesh. It has recently been reported also from Bhutan
Bhutan (; ...
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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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