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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