Ingerana

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Ingerana
Ingerana borealis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dicroglossidae
Subfamily: Occidozyginae
Genus: Ingerana
Dubois, 1987
Type species
Rana tenasserimensis
Sclater, 1892
Species

8, see text.

Ingerana is a genus of frogs in Dicroglossidae family.[1][2] These frogs are distributed in southeastern Asia, from Nepal, northeastern India, and southwestern China to Indochina, Borneo, and the Philippines. They are sometimes known as the eastern frogs.[1]

Species

With the placement of Ingerana baluensis being enigmatic[3] and several species having been transferred to Limnonectes in 2013 (Ingerana alpina, Ingerana liui, Ingerana medogensis, Ingerana xizangensis), this genus is left with eight species:[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Ingerana Dubois, 1987". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  2. "Ingerana Dubois, 1987". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  3. Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Ceratobatrachidae Boulenger, 1884". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  4. Iskandar, D. T., et al. (2011). A new Ingerana (Anura, Dicroglossidae) with no external tympanum from Borneo, Indonesia. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 59(2) 213-18.
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