Minervarya

Minervarya sahyadris

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Superordo: Batrachia Cladus: Salientia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Dicroglossidae
Subfamilia: Dicroglossinae
Genus: Minervarya
Species (32): M. agricola – M. andamanensis – M. asmati – M. brevipalmata – M. cepfi – M. charlesdarwini – M. chiangmaiensis – M. chilapata – M. ghatiborealis – M. goemchi – M. gomantaki – M. greenii – M. kadar – M. kalinga – M. keralensis – M. kirtisinghei – M. krishnan – M. manoharani – M. marathi – M. muangkanensis – M. mysorensis – M. neilcoxi – M. nepalensis – M. nicobariensis – M. nilagirica – M. pentali – M. pierrei – M. rufescens – M. sahyadris – M. sengupti – M. syhadrensis – M. teraiensis

Name

Minervarya Dubois, Ohler & Biju, 2001: 58

• Type species: Minervarya sahyadris Dubois, Ohler & Biju, by original designation.

Synonyms

• Zakerana Howlader, 2011: 1 [synonymised by Sanchez, Biju, Islam, Hasan, Ohler, Vences & Kurabayashi (2018: 115)]
  • Type species: Rana limnocharis syhadrensis Annandale, 1919, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Dubois, A., Ohler, A. & Biju, S.D. 2001. A new genus and species of Ranidae (Amphibia, Anura) from south-western India. Alytes 19: 53–79.
• Howlader, M.S.A. 2011. Cricket frog (Amphibia: Anura: Dicroglossidae): two regions of Asia are corresponding two groups. Bangladesh Wildlife Bulletin 5: 1–7.
• Sanchez, E., Biju, S.D., Islam, M.M., Hasan, M., Ohler, A., Vences, M. & Kurabayashi, A. 2018. Phylogeny and classification of fejervaryan frogs (Anura: Dicroglossidae). Salamandra 54(2): 109–116. PDF Reference page. 

Additional references

• Dinesh, K.P., Vijayakumar, S.P., Channakeshavamurthy, B.H., Torkesar, V.R., Kulkarni, N.U. & Shanker, K. 2015. Systematic status of Fejervarya (Amphibia, Anura, Dicroglossidae) from South and SE Asia with the description of a new species from the Western Ghats of Peninsular India. Zootaxa 3999(1): 79–94. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3999.1.5. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Garg, S. & Biju, S.D. 2017. Description of four new species of Burrowing Frogs in the Fejervarya rufescens complex (Dicroglossidae) with notes on morphological affinities of Fejervarya species in the Western Ghats. Zootaxa 4277(4): 451–490. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4277.4.1. Reference page. 
• Suwannapoom, C., Yuan, Z.-Y., Jiang, K., Yan, F., Gao, W. & Che, J. 2017. A new species of rain-pool frog (Dicroglossidae: Fejervarya) from western Thailand. Zoological Research 38(5): 243–250. DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2017.043 Reference page. 
• Dinesh, K.P., Kulkarni, N.U., Swamy, P. & Deepak, P. 2018. A New Species of Fejervarya Bolkay, 1915 from the Lateritic Plateaus of the Goa Parts of the Western Ghats. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117(4): 301–314. DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v117/i4/2017/121293 Reference page. 
• Raj, P., Dinesh, K.P., Das, A., Dutta, S.K., Kar, N.B. & Mohapatra, P.P. 2018. Two new species of cricket frogs of the genus Fejervarya Bolkay, 1915 (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the Peninsular India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118(1): 1–21. DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v118/i1/2018/121436 Reference page. 
• Phuge, S., Dinesh, K.P., Andhale, R., Bhakare, K. & Pandit, R. 2019. A new species of Fejervarya (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the northern Western Ghats parts of Maharashtra, India. Zootaxa 4544(2): 251–268. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4544.2.6 Reference page. 
• Hegde, A., Dinesh, K.P. & Kadadevaru, G. 2020. Phenotypic divergence in large sized cricket frog species that crossed the geographical barriers within peninsular India. Zootaxa 4838(2): 210–220. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4838.2.3 Reference page. 
• Garg, S. & Biju, S.D. 2021. DNA barcoding and systematic review of Minervaryan Frogs (Dicroglossidae: Minervarya) of Peninsular India: Resolution of a taxonomic conundrum with description of a new species. Asian Herpetological Research 12(4): 345–370. DOI: 10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.210023 Reference page. 
• Yadav, O., Bhosale, A., Patil, P., Khandekar, A. & Dinesh, K.P. 2025. Discovery and description of a deeply divergent frog lineage of the genus Minervarya Dubois, Ohler & Biju, 2001 (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the basaltic plateau of the northern Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India. Zootaxa 5594(1): 136–154. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5594.1.6 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

• English: Cricket Frogs