Ranidae

Clinotarsus curtipes

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

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

Familia: Ranidae
Genera (26): Abavorana – Amnirana – Amolops – Babina – Bijurana – Chalcorana – Clinotarsus – Glandirana – Huia – Humerana – Hydrophylax – Hylarana – Indosylvirana – Lithobates – Meristogenys – Nidirana – Odorrana – Papurana – Pelophylax – Pseudorana – Pterorana – Pulchrana – Rana – Sanguirana – Staurois – Sumaterana – Sylvirana

Name

Ranidae Batsch, 1796: 179

• Type genus: Rana Linnaeus, 1758.

Synonymy

• Ranaridia Rafinesque, 1814
• Ranarinia — Rafinesque, 1815
• Ranae — Goldfuss, 1820
• Ranadae — Gray, 1825
• Ranina — Gray, 1825
• Ranoidea — Fitzinger, 1826
• Ranidae — Boie, 1828
• Ranaria — Hemprich, 1829
• Raniadae Smith, 1831
• Ranina — Bonaparte, 1832
• Ranae — Tschudi, 1838
• Ranidae — Bonaparte, 1840
• Raniformes — Duméril & Bibron, 1841
• Limnodytae Fitzinger, 1843
• Ranini — Bronn, 1849
• Raninae — Bronn, 1849
• Ranidae — Bonaparte, 1850
• Ranoides — Bruch, 1862
• Ranoidea — Wied-Neuwied, 1865
• Ranida — Haeckel, 1866
• Ranidi — Acloque, 1900
• Ranoidea — Laurent, 1967
• Limnodytini — Dubois, 1981
• Amolopsinae Yang, 1991
• Ranoidae — Dubois, 1992
• Amolopinae — Zhang & Wen, 2000
• Ranoidia — Dubois, 2005
• Stauroini Dubois, 2005
• Amolopini — Scott, 2005

References

Primary references

• Batsch, A.J. 1796. Umriss der gesammten Naturgeschichte. Volume 1. Christian Ernst Gabler: Jena. 287 pp.

Additional references

• 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. 
• Dubois, A. & Bour, R. 2010. The nomenclatural status of the nomina of amphibians and reptiles created by Garsault (1764), with a parsimonious solution to an old nomenclatural problem regarding the genus Bufo (Amphibia, Anura), comments on the taxonomy of this genus, and comments on some nomina created by Laurenti (1768). Zootaxa 2447: 001–052. Preview. Reference page. 
• Oliver, L.A., Prendini, E., Kraus, F. & Raxworthy, C.J. 2015. Systematics and biogeography of the Hylarana frog (Anura: Ranidae) radiation across tropical Australasia, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 90: 176–192. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.05.001 Reference page. 
• Arifin, U., Smart, U., Hertwig, S.T., Smith, E.N., Iskandar, D.T. & Haas, A. 2018. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of a taxonomically unstable ranid from Sumatra, Indonesia, reveals a new genus with gastromyzophorous tadpoles and two new species. Zoosystematics and Evolution 94(1): 163–193. DOI: 10.3897/zse.94.22120. Reference page. 

Links

• Frost, D.R. 2021. Ranidae. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1 (4 September 2021). Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001

Vernacular names

беларуская: Звычайныя жабы
català: Granota
Deutsch: Echte Frösche
English: True Frogs
suomi: Aitosammakot
Nordfriisk: Hobelfasker
עברית: צפרדעיים
magyar: Valódi békák
日本語: アカガエル科
한국어: 개구리과
norsk: Frosker
svenska: Akta grodor
ไทย: กบนา, กบแท้
Türkçe: Gerçek su kurbağaları
українська: Жаб'ячі
中文: 蛙科

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