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Hylarana
Sign in to saveHylarana, commonly known as golden-backed frogs, is a genus of true frogs found in tropical Asia. It was formerly considered highly diverse, containing around 84 to 96 valid species, but taxonomic revision resulted in a major change in the contents of the genus, recognizing just four species.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAmphibia
- OrderAnura
- FamilyRanidae
水蛙屬（Hylarana）是蛙科下的一個屬，分佈于熱帶非洲、亞洲和澳大利亞[2]。其下約有86個種。 目录 1 分類 2 種 3 參考文獻 4 外部連結 分類 水蛙屬之前被當做蛙屬（Rana）的亞屬，2005年被單獨劃分出來[2][3]。2006年將水蛙屬再度細分，又有許多新屬被分離出來。但後來這些新屬重新併入水蛙屬，其屬名也被當做水蛙屬的異名[1]。 種 水蛙屬下現約有86個種，分別為：[1][2][4] Hylarana aurantiaca（英语：Hylarana aurantiaca） Hylarana guentheri Hylarana latouchii Hylarana malabarica（英语：Hylarana malabarica） Hylarana macrodactyla Hylarana moellendorffi（英语：Hylarana moellendorffi） Hylarana nigrovittata Hylarana taipehensis Hylarana albolabris（英语：Hylarana albolabris） (Hallowell, 1856) Hylarana albotuberculata（英语：Hylarana albotuberculata） (Inger, 1954) Hylarana amnicola（英语：Hylarana amnicola） Perret, 1977 Hylarana arfaki（英语：Hylarana arfaki） (Meyer, 1875) Hylarana asperrima（英语：Hylarana asperrima） Perret, 1977 Hylarana attigua（英语：Hylarana attigua） (Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999) Hylarana aurantiaca（英语：Hylarana aurantiaca） (Boulenger, 1904) Hylarana aurata（英语：Hylarana aurata） (Günther, 2003) Hylarana banjarana（英语：Hylarana banjarana） (Leong and Lim, 2003) Hylarana baramica（英语：Hylarana baramica） (Boettger, 1900) Hylarana celebensis（英语：Hylarana celebensis） (Peters, 1872) Hylarana chalconota（英语：Hylarana chalconota） (Schlegel, 1837) Hylarana chitwanensis（英语：Hylarana chi
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 315
- Family
- Ranidae
- Collections
- USNM, ROM
- Recorded in
- Burma, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea
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Hylarana, commonly known as golden-backed frogs, is a genus of true frogs found in tropical Asia. It was formerly considered highly diverse, containing around 84 to 96 valid species, but taxonomic revision resulted in a major change in the contents of the genus, recognizing just four species.
==Description== Hylarana are small to large-sized frogs. Males have an average snout-vent length of , while females range from . The nares (nostrils) are oval in shape and covered by a flap of skin. The tympanum is visible but is not covered by a supratympanic fold. Vomerine teeth and a pineal ocellus (parietal eye) are present. The toes are webbed, but the fingers are not.
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