Nidirana

Nidirana
Kampira Falls frog (N. okinavana)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Ranidae
Genus:	Nidirana Dubois, 1992
Species
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Nidirana is a genus of true frogs (Ranidae) from East and Southeast Asia. They are commonly known as music frogs. This genus contains numerous species that were formerly classified in the genus Babina , which is thought to be its sister genus. ^{[1] [2]}

Species

The following species are recognized within Nidirana: ^[1]

• Nidirana adenopleura (Boulenger, 1909)
• Nidirana chapaensis (Bourret, 1937)
• Nidirana chongqingensis Ma & Wang, 2023 ^[3]
• Nidirana daunchina (Chang, 1933)
• Nidirana guangdongensis Lyu, Wan, and Wang, 2020
• Nidirana guangxiensis Mo, Lyu, Huang, Liao, and Wang, 2021
• Nidirana hainanensis (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2007)
• Nidirana leishanensis Li, Wei, Xu, Cui, Fei, Jiang, Liu, and Wang, 2019
• Nidirana lini (Chou, 1999)
• Nidirana mangveni Lyu, Qi, and Y.-y. Wang, 2020
• Nidirana nankunensis Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Lin, Liu, and Wang, 2017

• Nidirana occidentalis Lyu, Yang, and Wang, 2020
• Nidirana okinavana (Boettger, 1895)
• Nidirana pleuraden (Boulenger, 1904)
• Nidirana shiwandashanensis Chen, Peng, Li, and Liu, 2022
• Nidirana shyhhuangi C.-F. Lin, Chang, Matsui, Shen, Tominaga & S.-M. Lin, 2025 ^[4]
• Nidirana xiangica Lyu and Wang, 2020
• Nidirana yaoica Lyu, Mo, Wan, Li, Pang, and Wang, 2019
• Nidirana yeae Wei, Li, Liu, Cheng, Xu, and Wang, 2020

• Nidirana noadihing Boruah, Deepak & Das, 2023 ^[5]

References

1. "Nidirana Dubois, 1992 | Amphibian Species of the World". amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
2. "AmphibiaWeb Search". amphibiaweb.org. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
3. Ma Q. and Z. Wang. 2023. A New Species of Nidirana Dubois, 1992 (Anura, Ranidae) from Chongqing Municipality, China. Biodiversity Data Journal. 11: e101986. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.11.e101986
4. Chun-Fu Lin, Chunwen Chang, Masafumi Matsui, Chin-Chia Shen, Atsushi Tominaga and Si-Min Lin. 2025. Description of A New Music Frog (Anura, Ranidae, Nidirana) critically endangered in Taiwan. ZooKeys. 1229: 245-273. DOI: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1229.139344
5. Bitupan Boruah, V. Deepak and Abhijit Das. 2023. Musicians in the Marsh: A New Species of Music Frog (Anura: Ranidae: Nidirana) from Arunachal Pradesh, India. Zootaxa. 5374(1); 51-73. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5374.1.3