Papurana
Sign in to savePapurana is a genus of frogs in the family Ranidae, "true frogs". They are known from Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and northern Australia. Papurana daemeli is the only ranid frog found in Australia.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 961
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Ranidae
- Collections
- BYU, MVZ, WAM, AM, SAMA
- Recorded in
- Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Unknown Or Invalid, Australia, Solomon Islands
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- taxon name
- Papurana
- taxon rank
- genus
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- Papurana
- taxon author citation
- Dubois, 1992
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Papurana is a genus of frogs in the family Ranidae, "true frogs". They are known from Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and northern Australia. Papurana daemeli is the only ranid frog found in Australia.
==Taxonomy== Papurana was originally introduced as a subgenus of Rana. It was often included in the then-diverse genus Hylarana, until Oliver and colleagues revised the genus in 2015, delimiting Hylarana more narrowly and elevating Papurana to genus rank.
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