Zakerana
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]
| Zakerana | |
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| Minervarya keralensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
| Diversity | |
| 35 species, see text | |
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]
- Zakerana asmati (Howlader, 2011)
- Zakerana brevipalmata (Peters, 1871)
- Zakerana caperata (Kuramoto, Joshy, Kurabayashi, and Sumida, 2008)
- Zakerana dhaka (Howlader, 2016)
- Zakerana granosa (Kuramoto, Joshy, Kurabayashi, and Sumida, 2008)
- Zakerana greenii (Boulenger, 1905)
- Zakerana keralensis (Dubois, 1981)
- Zakerana kirtisinghei (Manamendra-Arachchi and Gabadage, 1996)
- Zakerana kudremukhensis (Kuramoto, Joshy, Kurabayashi, and Sumida, 2008)
- Zakerana mudduraja (Kuramoto, Joshy, Kurabayashi, and Sumida, 2008)
- Zakerana murthii (Pillai, 1979)
- Zakerana mysorensis (Rao, 1922)
- Zakerana nepalensis (Dubois, 1975)
- Zakerana nilagirica (Jerdon, 1854)
- Zakerana parambikulamana (Rao, 1937)
- Zakerana pierrei (Dubois, 1975)
- Zakerana rufescens (Jerdon, 1854)
- Zakerana sauriceps (Rao, 1937)
- Zakerana sengupti (Purkayastha and Matsui, 2012)
- Zakerana syhadrensis (Annandale, 1919)
- Zakerana teraiensis (Dubois, 1984)
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
- 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.
- Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Zakerana Howlader, 2011". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
- 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.