Ranoidea (genus)

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Ranoidea
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Ranoidea aurea , the type species
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Subfamily: Pelodryadinae
Genus: Ranoidea
(Tschudi, 1838)
Type species
Ranoidea jacksoniensis
(Tschudi, 1838)
Synonyms [1]
List
  • Dryopsophus(Fitzinger, 1843)
  • Euscelis(Fitzinger, 1843)
  • Pelodryas(Günther, 1859 "1858")
  • Cyclorana(Steindachner, 1867)
  • Phractops(Peters, 1867)
  • Chirodryas(Keferstein, 1867)
  • Mitrolysis(Cope, 1889)
  • Fanchonia(Werner, 1893)
  • Brendanura(Wells and Wellington, 1985)
  • Neophractops(Wells and Wellington, 1985)
  • Mosleyia(Wells and Wellington, 1985)

Ranoidea is a genus of frogs in the subfamily Pelodryadinae. They are found in Australia, New Guinea, and two nearby groups of islands: the Maluku Islands, and the Louisiade Archipelago. [1] The circumscription of this taxon is still controversial.

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Taxonomy

Species in this genus were until recently placed in the then-paraphyletic genus Litoria ; many of them had been placed in even larger Hyla before. In 2006, Frost and colleague synonymised Nyctimystes with Litoria to make a monophyletic Litoria within a monotypic Pelodryadinae. [2] [3] Later, in 2016, Duellman and colleagues restored Nyctimystes and moved some of the remaining Litoria species to the resurrected genus Dryopsophus. [1] [4] However, Frost in Amphibian Species of the World argued that Ranoidea the oldest available name for these species and replaced genus Dryopsophus with Ranoidea. [1] AmphibiaWeb continues to recognize Litoria in the older, broad sense, although it also recognizes Cyclorana , [5] a position that, without additional amendments, renders Ranoidea paraphyletic; it may be treated as a subgenus. [1]

A recent phylogenomic analysis of family Pelodryadidae has proposed a major taxonomic revision, recognising 35 genera, including 12 for the species currently treated as Ranoidea in this article and Amphibian Species of the World or the Dropsophus of Duellman and colleagues. [6]

Description and ecology

The pupil is horizontally elliptical, and the palpebral membrane is unpigmented. Many species have tadpoles that develop in mountain streams and have enlarged ventral mouths. [4] However, tadpoles of subgenus Cyclorana are adapted to standing water and are often found in temporary water bodies. [7]

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Ranoidea: [1]

Although currently listed as incertae sedis , it is expected that " Ranoidea papua " (Van Kampen, 1909) will also be included in the genus once its range has been properly delimited.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Frost, Darrel R. (2022). "Ranoidea Tschudi, 1838". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1. American Museum of Natural History. Archived from the original on 6 November 2022. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  2. ↑ Frost, Darrel R. "Nyctimystes Stejneger, 1916". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.2. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
  3. ↑ Frost, Darrel R.; Grant, Taran; Faivovich, Julián; Bain, Raoul H.; Haas, Alexander; Haddad, Célio F.B.; De Sá, Rafael O.; Channing, Alan; Wilkinson, Mark; Donnellan, Stephen C.; Raxworthy, Christopher J.; Campbell, Jonathan A.; Blotto, Boris L.; Moler, Paul; Drewes, Robert C.; Nussbaum, Ronald A.; Lynch, John D.; Green, David M.; Wheeler, Ward C. (2006). "The Amphibian Tree of Life". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 297: 1. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2. ISSN   0003-0090.
  4. 1 2 Duellman, William E.; Marion, Angela B. & Hedges, S. Blair (19 April 2016). "Phylogenetics, classification, and biogeography of the treefrogs (Amphibia: Anura: Arboranae)". Zootaxa. 4104 (1): 1–109. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4104.1.1. PMID   27394762.
  5. ↑ "Hylidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  6. ↑ Donnellan, Stephen; Mahony, Michael; Esquerre, Damien; Brennan, Ian; Price, Luke; Lemmon, Alan; Lemmon, Emily; Günther, Rainer; Monis, Paul; Bertozzi, Terry; Keogh, Scott; Shea, Glenn; Richards, Stephen (2025). "Phylogenomics informs a generic revision of the Australo-Papuan treefrogs (Anura: Pelodryadidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 204. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf015.
  7. ↑ Van Buskirk, J. (2009). "Getting in shape: adaptation and phylogenetic inertia in morphology of Australian anuran larvae". Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 22 (6): 1326–1337. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01750.x . PMID   19457143.
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