Rana

Rana temporaria

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Superordo: Batrachia Cladus: Salientia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Ranidae
Genus: Rana
Species (54 + †1): R. amurensis – R. arvalis – R. asiatica – R. chaochiaoensis – R. chensinensis – R. chevronta – R. coreana – R. culaiensis – R. dabieshanensis – R. dalmatina – R. dybowskii – R. graeca – R. hanluica – R. huanrenensis – R. iberica – R. italica – R. japonica – R. jiemuxiensis – R. jiulingensis – R. johnsi – R. kobai – R. kukunoris – R. kyoto – R. latastei – R. longicrus – R. luanchuanensis – R. macrocnemis – R. maoershanensis – R. matsuoi – R. minuscula – R. neba – R. okiensis – R. omeimontis – R. ornativentris – R. parvipalmata – R. pirica – R. pseudodalmatina – R. pyrenaica – R. qianjiang – R. qui – R. sakuraii – R. sangzhiensis – R. sauteri – R. tagoi – R. taihangensis – R. tavasensis – R. temporaria – R. tsushimensis – R. uenoi – R. ulma – R. wuyiensis – R. yakushimensis – R. zhenhaiensis – R. zhijinensis – †R. architemporaria

• Nomen dubium: R. marginata
  

Name

Rana Linnaeus, 1758: 210

• Type species: Rana temporaria Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Fleming (1822: 304).

Synonyms

• Ranaria Rafinesque, 1814: 102 [substitute name for Rana Linnaeus, 1758]
• Crotaphitis Schultze, 1891: 176
  • Type species: Rana arvalis Nilsson, 1907, by subsequent designation of Dubois & Ohler (1996: 183).
• Pseudoamolops Jiang, Fei, Ye, Zeng, Zhen, Xie & Chen, 1997: 67 [nomen nudum]
  • Type species: Not designated.
• Pseudoamolops — Fei, Ye & Jiang, 2000: 21
  • Type species: Rana sauteri Boulenger, 1909, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page. 
• Fleming, J. 1822. The philosophy of zoology; or a general view of the structure, functions, and classification of animals. In two volumes. With engravings. Archibald Constable & Co. Edinburgh. 2: 1-618. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Hillis, D.M. & Wilcox, T.P. 2005. Phylogeny of the New World true frogs (Rana). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34(2): 299–314. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.10.007 ; ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P.E., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–370. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5781 . Reference page. 
• Bain, R.H. , B.L. Stuart & N.L. Orlov, 2006. Three new Indochinese species of cascade frogs (Amphibia: Ranidae) allied to Rana archotaphus. Copeia 2006(1): 43–59. Full article: [1].
• Donnellan, S.C.; Aplin, K.P.; Bertozzi, T. 2010. Species boundaries in the Rana arfaki group (Anura: Ranidae) and phylogenetic relationships to other New Guinean Rana. Zootaxa 2496: 49–62. Preview
• Dubois, A.; Ohler, A. 2009. The status of the amphibian nomina created by Merrem (1820) and Ritgen (1828). Zootaxa 2247: 1–36. Abstract & excerpt
• Hillis, D.M. 2007. Constraints in naming parts of the Tree of Life. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 42(2): 331–338. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.08.001 PDF
• Wang, C-C., Qian, L-F., Zhang, C-L., Guo, W-B., Pan, T., Wu, J., Wang, H. & Zhang, B-W. 2017. A new species of Rana from the Dabie Mountains in eastern China (Anura, Ranidae). ZooKeys 724: 135–153. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.724.19383 Reference page. 
• Zhao, H-P., Yang, J-X., Wang, J-P., Li, P-P., Murphy, R.W., Che, J. & Yuan, Z-Y. 2017. A new species of the genus Rana from Henan, central China (Anura, Ranidae). ZooKeys 694: 95–108. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.694.12513 Reference page. 
• Wan, H., Lyu, Z.-T., Qi, S., Zhao, J., Li, P.-P. & Wang, Y.-Y. 2020. A new species of the Rana japonica group (Anura, Ranidae, Rana) from China, with a taxonomic proposal for the R. johnsi group. ZooKeys 942: 141–158. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.942.46928 Reference page. 
• Wu, Y-Q., Shi, S-C., Zhang, H-G., Chen, W-C., Cai, B., Hoang, V.C., Wu, J. & Wang, B. 2021. A new species of the genus Rana sensu lato Linnaeus, 1758 (Anura, Ranidae) from Wuyi Mountain, Fujian Province, China. Zookeys 1065: 101–124. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1065.67005 Reference page. 
• Chen, W., Qian, W.-Y., Miao, K., Qian, R., Yuan, S.-J., Liu, W., Dai, J.-H., Hu, C.-C. & Chang, Q. 2022. Comparative mitogenomics of True Frogs (Ranidae, Anura), and its implications for the phylogeny and evolutionary history of Rana. Animals 12(10): 1250. DOI: 10.3390/ani12101250 Reference page. 
• Shen, H.-J., Xu, M.-Y., Yang, X.-Y., Chen, Z., Xiao, N.-W. & Chen, X.-H. 2022. A new Brown Frog of the genus Rana (Anura, Ranidae) from North China, with a taxonomic revision of the R. chensinensis species group. Asian Herpetological Research 13(3): 145–158. DOI: 10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.210062 Reference page. 
• Yan, S.-S., He, Q.-Q., Luo, T., Xu, C., Deng, H.-Q., Xiao, N. & Zhou, J. 2022. Description of a new species of the genus Rana (Anura: Ranidae) from western Guizhou, China, integrating morphological and molecular genetic data. Zoological Systematics 47(4): 275–292. DOI: 10.11865/zs.2022 Reference page. 
• Eto, K. & Matsui, M. 2023. A new Brown Frog from the Goto Islands, Japan with taxonomic revision on the subspecific relationships of Rana tagoi (Amphibia: Anura: Ranidae). Current Herpetology 42(2): 191–209. DOI: 10.5358/hsj.42.191 Reference page. 
• Gao, S.-X., Shen, H.-J., Yang, X.-Y., Chen, Z., Hou, Y.-M. & Chen, X.-H. 2024. A new Brown Frog of Rana (Amphibia, Anura, Ranidae) from Central China, Henan Province. Asian Herpetological Research 15(4): 265–278 DOI: 10.3724/ahr.2095-0357.2024.0030 Reference page. 
• Li, J-F., Xie, M., Zhang, F-P., Shu, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, Z-N., Xiang, H.M. & Jiang, W-S. 2024. Insights into phylogenetic relationships and gene rearrangements: complete mitogenomes of two sympatric species in the genus Rana (Anura, Ranidae). ZooKeys 1216: 63–82. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1216.131847 Reference page. 
• Liu, B.-Q., Wang, Y.-F., Huang, J.-K., Liu, X.-L., Yuan, Z.-Y. & Che, J. 2024. Description of a new species of Rana (Anura: Ranidae) from Zhejiang, China based on morphological and molecular data. Asian Herpetological Research 15(4): 232–240. DOI: 10.3724/ahr.2095-0357.2024.0022 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

• Deutsch: Echte Frösche
• English: True Frogs
• 日本語: アカガエル属
• svenska: Rana

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