Rana

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. compotrix – 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. 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.
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.

Vernacular names

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