Chrysopaa Ohler and Dubois, 2006

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dicroglossidae > Subfamily: Dicroglossinae > Genus: Chrysopaa
1 species

Chrysopaa Ohler and Dubois, 2006, Zoosystema, 28: 780. Type species: Rana sternosignata Murray, 1885, by original designation.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Baluchistan (Pakistan) and Kashmir (Pakistan and India) to Afghanistan.

Comment

Suggested in the original publication to form the sister taxon of a group referred to as Nanorana by Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297. Che, Hu, Zhou, Murphy, Papenfuss, Chen, Rao, Li, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 50: 59-73, did not address the phylogenetic placement of this taxon. Che, Zhou, Hu, Papenfuss, Wake, and Zhang, 2010, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 107: 13765-13770, or Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, did not address the phylogenetic placement of this taxon. Hofmann, Jablonski, Litvinchuk, Masroor, and Schmidt, 2021, PeerJ, 9 (e11793): 1–22, suggested on molecular grounds that Chrysopaa is the sister taxon of Nanorana + Allopaa.  

Contained taxa (1 sp.):

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