Biology:Zakerana
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| Minervarya keralensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Dicroglossidae |
| Subfamily: | Dicroglossinae |
| Genus: | Minervarya Dubois, A., A. Ohler, and S. D. Biju, 2001 |
| Type species | |
| Minervarya sahyadris Dubois, Ohler, and Biju, 2001
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| Diversity | |
| 35 species, see text | |
Minervarya is a genus of frogs in the family Dicroglossidae from south Asia (Sri Lanka, the Indian subcontinent including Pakistan , Nepal, and Bangladesh), and Nepal and Bhutan. They are sometimes known as the Cricket frogs or Rice frogs.[1]
Taxonomy
The genus Minervarya was proposed to be recognized as a distinct genera from Fejervarya in 2018.[1] This was the culmination of recognizing that Fejervarya (as known before) was paraphyletic and consisted of two different groups; this recognition had already developing some years before and the genus name Zakerana was proposed.[2]
Species
There are 20 species in this genus:[2]
Phylogeny
The following phylogeny of Zakerana is from Pyron & Wiens (2011).[3] 9 species are included.
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Howlader, et al. (2016) gives a different phylogeny.[4] 11 species are included.
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Both phylogenetic trees place Zakerana mudduraja as the most basal species.
Suwannapoom, et al. (2016) place Fejervarya chiangmaiensis as a sister taxon to a clade containing Zakerana syhandrensis, Zakerana granosa, and Zakerana pierrei.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kurabayashi, Atsushi; Sanchez, Eugenia; Kurabayashi, Atsushi; Biju, S.D.; Islam, Mohammed M.; Hasan, Mahmudul (2018). "Phylogeny and classification of fejervaryan frogs (Anura: Dicroglossidae)". Salamandra 54 (1): 109–116. http://www.salamandra-journal.com/index.php/home/contents/2018-vol-54/1901-sanchez-e-s-d-biju-m-m-islam-m-hasan-a-ohler-m-vences-a-kurabayashi.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Zakerana Howlader, 2011". American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Dicroglossidae/Dicroglossinae/Zakerana.
- ↑ R. Alexander Pyron; John J. Wiens (2011). "A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61 (2): 543–583. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.06.012. PMID 21723399.
- ↑ Howlader MSA, Nair A, Merilä J (2016) A New Species of Frog (Anura: Dicroglossidae) Discovered from the Mega City of Dhaka. PLoS ONE 11(3): e0149597. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0149597
- ↑ Suwannapoom, C,, Z.-y. Yuan, N. A. Poyarkov, Jr., F. Yan, S. Kamtaeja, R. W. Murphy, and J. Che. 2016. A new species of genus Fejervarya (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from northern Thailand. Zoological Research/Dōngwùxué yánjiū. Kunming 37(6): 1–11.
Wikidata ☰ Q8065051 entry
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