Ranoidea (genus)
genus of amphibians
Ranoidea is a genus of frogs in the subfamily Pelodryadinae. They live in Australia, New Guinea, the Maluku Islands, and the Louisiade Archipelago.[1] Scientists still disagree with each other about whether Ranoidea should be its own genus or not and which frogs should be in it. Many of the frogs in Ranoidea used to be in Litoria, Dryopsophus, or Hyla. In 2016, one team of scientists wrote a paper saying Litoria should be divided up into other genuses. Many other amphibian scientists read it and agreed, but some did not.[1][2] One reason for this was that not all of the frogs in Litoria had been studied on the DNA level.[3][4][5][6][7]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Pelodryadidae |
| Subfamily: | Pelodryadinae |
| Genus: | Ranoidea Tschudi, 1838 |
| Type species | |
| Ranoidea jacksoniensis Tschudi, 1838
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Description and ecology
changeAll frogs in Ranoidea have side-to-side pupils that open up-and-down and no coloring in their eyelid membrane. Many species have tadpoles that swim in mountain streams and have very large mouths on the undersides of their bodies.[2]
Species
changeThe following species are or were recognized in the genus Ranoidea:[1]
- Ranoidea alboguttata (Günther, 1867) - Striped burrowing frog
- Ranoidea andiirrmalin (McDonald, 1997) - Cape Melville tree frog
- Ranoidea aruensis (Horst, 1883) - Aru tree frog
- Ranoidea auae (Menzies and Tyler, 2004)
- Ranoidea aurea (Lesson, 1829) - Green and golden bell frog
- Ranoidea australis (Gray, 1842) - Northern snapping frog, Australian water-holding frog, giant ground frog
- Ranoidea barringtonensis (Copland, 1957) - Mountain stream tree frog
- Ranoidea becki (Loveridge, 1945) - Beck's tree frog
- Ranoidea bella (McDonald, Rowley, Richards, and Frankham, 2016) - Cape York graceful tree frog
- Ranoidea booroolongensis (Moore, 1961) - Booroolong frog
- Ranoidea brevipes (Peters, 1871) - Short-footed frog
- Ranoidea brongersmai (Loveridge, 1945) - Brongersma's tree frog
- Ranoidea bulmeri (Tyler, 1968) - Bulmer's tree frog
- Ranoidea caerulea (White, 1790)
- Ranoidea callista (Kraus, 2013)
- Ranoidea cavernicola (Tyler and Davies, 1979) - Cave-dwelling frog
- Ranoidea chloris (Boulenger, 1892) - Orange-eyed tree frog
- Ranoidea citropa (Péron, 1807) - Blue Mountains tree frog
- Ranoidea cryptotis (Tyler and Martin, 1977) - Hidden-ear frog
- Ranoidea cultripes (Parker, 1940) - Knife-footed frog
- Ranoidea cyclorhynchus (Boulenger, 1882) - Spotted-thighed frog
- Ranoidea dahlii (Boulenger, 1896) - Dahl's aquatic frog
- Ranoidea daviesae (Mahony, Knowles, Foster, and Donnellan, 2001) - Davies' tree frog
- Ranoidea dayi (Günther, 1897) - Australian lace-lid
- Ranoidea dorsivena (Tyler, 1968) - Eastern mountains tree frog
- Ranoidea elkeae (Günther and Richards, 2000)
- Ranoidea eschata (Kraus and Allison, 2009)
- Ranoidea eucnemis (Lönnberg, 1900) - Fringed tree frog
- Ranoidea exophthalmia (Tyler, Davies, and Aplin, 1986)
- Ranoidea fuscula (Oliver and Richards, 2007)
- Ranoidea genimaculata (Horst, 1883) - Green-eyed tree frog
- Ranoidea gilleni (Spencer, 1896) - Centralian tree frog
- Ranoidea gracilenta (Peters, 1869) - Dainty green tree frog
- Ranoidea graminea (Boulenger, 1905) - Northern New Guinea tree frog
- Ranoidea impura (Peters and Doria, 1878)
- Ranoidea jungguy (Donnellan and Mahony, 2004) - Jungguy frog
- Ranoidea kroombitensis (Hoskin, Hines, Meyer, Clarke, and Cunningham, 2013) - Kroombit frog
- Ranoidea kumae (Menzies and Tyler, 2004)
- Ranoidea lesueurii (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) - LeSueur's frog
- Ranoidea longipes (Tyler and Martin, 1977) - Kimberly water-holding frog
- Ranoidea lorica (Davies and McDonald, 1979) - Armoured frog
- Ranoidea macki (Richards, 2001)
- Ranoidea maculosa (Tyler and Martin, 1977) - Olive water-holding frog, Daly Waters frog
- Ranoidea maini (Tyler and Martin, 1977) - Main's frog
- Ranoidea manya (Van Beurden and McDonald, 1980) - Small frog
- Ranoidea moorei (Copland, 1957) - Motorbike frog
- Ranoidea myola (Hoskin, 2007) - Kuranda tree frog
- Ranoidea nannotis (Andersson, 1916) - Waterfall frog
- Ranoidea napaea (Tyler, 1968) - Snow Mountains tree frog
- Ranoidea novaehollandiae (Steindachner, 1867) - New Holland frog
- Ranoidea nudidigita (Copland, 1963) - Narrow fringed frog, leaf green tree frog
- Ranoidea nyakalensis (Liem, 1974) - Mountain mist frog
- Ranoidea occidentalis (Anstis, Price, Roberts, Catalano, Hines, Doughty, and Donnellan, 2016) - Western water-holding frog
- Ranoidea pearsoniana (Copland, 1961) - Pearson's green tree frog
- Ranoidea phyllochroa (Günther, 1863) - Leaf green tree frog
- Ranoidea piperata (Tyler and Davies, 1985) - Peppered tree frog
- Ranoidea platycephala (Günther, 1873) - Eastern water-holding frog
- Ranoidea pratti (Boulenger, 1911) - Pratt's tree frog
- Ranoidea raniformis (Keferstein, 1867) - Growling grass frog
- Ranoidea rara (Günther and Richards, 2005)
- Ranoidea rheocola (Liem, 1974) - Common mist frog
- Ranoidea rivicola (Günther and Richards, 2005)
- Ranoidea robinsonae (Oliver, Stuart-Fox, and Richards, 2008)
- Ranoidea rueppelli (Boettger, 1895) - Rueppel's big-eyed tree frog
- Ranoidea serrata (Andersson, 1916) - Green-eyed tree frog
- Ranoidea spenceri (Dubois, 1984) - Spencer's tree frog
- Ranoidea spinifera (Tyler, 1968) - Spiny tree frog
- Ranoidea splendida (Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1977) - Magnificent tree frog
- Ranoidea subglandulosa (Tyler and Anstis, 1983) - New England tree frog
- Ranoidea vagitus (Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981) - Wailing frog
- Ranoidea verrucosa (Tyler and Martin, 1977) - Rough frog
- Ranoidea wilcoxii (Günther, 1864) - Wilcox's frog
- Ranoidea xanthomera (Davies, McDonald, and Adams, 1986) - Orange-thighed frog
Scientists also think the Papua big-eyed tree frog (Van Kampen, 1909) might be in Ranoidea but they want to collect more data about where the frog lives first.
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Frost, Darrel R. (2018). "Ranoidea Tschudi, 1838". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
- ↑ Simmons, M.P. 2012. Misleading results of likelihood‐based phylogenetic analyses in the presence of missing data. Cladistics 28(2): 208-222. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00375.x)
- ↑ Dunn, K.A., McEachran, J.D., & Honeycutt, R.L. 2003. Molecular phylogenetics of myliobatiform fishes (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes), with comments on the effects of missing data on parsimony and likelihood. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 27(2): 259-270. DOI: 10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00442-6
- ↑ Kearney, M. 2002. Fragmentary taxa, missing data, and ambiguity: mistaken assumptions and conclusions. Systematic biology 51(2): 369-381. DOI:10.1080/10635150252899824
- ↑ Xi, Z., Liu, L., & Davis, C.C. 2016. The impact of missing data on species tree estimation. Molecular Biology and Evolution 33(3): 838-860. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msv266
- ↑ McDonald, K.R., Rowley, J.J., Richards, S.J., & Frankham, G.J. (2016). A new species of treefrog (Litoria) from Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Zootaxa 4171(1): 153-169. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.6
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