Nidirana Explained

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]

Species

The following species are recognized within Nidirana:^[2]

• Nidirana adenopleura (Boulenger, 1909)
• Nidirana chapaensis (Bourret, 1937)
• Nidirana chongqingensis Ma & Wang, 2023 ^[3]
• 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 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^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: AmphibiaWeb Search . 2022-08-08 . amphibiaweb.org.
2. Web site: Nidirana Dubois, 1992 Amphibian Species of the World . 2022-08-08 . amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org.
3. 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
4. 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