Quasipaa Dubois, 1992

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dicroglossidae > Subfamily: Dicroglossinae > Genus: Quasipaa
13 species

Quasipaa Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 319. Type species: Rana boulengeri Günther, 1889, by original designation. Proposed as a subgenus of Paa.

Eripaa Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 319. Type species: Rana fasciculispina Inger, 1970, by original designation. Proposed as a subgenus of Paa. Synonymy by Ohler and Dubois, 2006, Zoosystema, 28: 781.

Annandia Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 317-318. Type species: Rana delacouri Angel, 1928, by original designation. Proposed originally as a subgenus of Chaparana. Synonymy with Nanorana by Che, Hu, Zhou, Murphy, Papenfuss, Chen, Rao, Li, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 50: 69. Synonymy with Quasipaa by Che, Hu, Zhou, Murphy, Papenfuss, Chen, Rao, Li, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 50: 69.

Annandia — Dubois, 2005, Alytes, 23: 16. Consideration as a genus.

Yerana Jiang, Chen, and Wang, 2006, J. Anhui Normal Univ., Nat. Sci., 29: 468. Type species: Paa (Feirana) yei Chen, Qu, and Jiang, 2002, by original designation. Synonymy by implication of placement of Nanorana yei in tree of Che, Hu, Zhou, Murphy, Papenfuss, Chen, Rao, Li, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 50: 66.

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Southern and southwestern China to central Vietnam, northern and southeastern Laos, southeastern Thailand and southwestern Cambodia.

Comment

Recognized as a genus distinct from a group composed of Paa, Nanorana, and Chaparana (now considered to be components of Nanorana) by Jiang, Dubois, Ohler, Tillier, Chen, Xie, and Stöck, 2005, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 22: 353-362. Ohler and Dubois, 2006, Zoosystema, 28: 769-784, provided a phylogenetic analysis. Wiens, Sukumaran, Pyron, and Brown, 2009, Evolution, 63: 1217-1231, provided a molecular analysis that corroborated the monophyly of this group. Che, Zhou, Hu, Papenfuss, Wake, and Zhang, 2010, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 107: 13765-13770, and Che, Zhou, Hu, Papenfuss, Wake, and Zhang, 2010, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., doi:10.1073/pnas.1008415107/-/DCSupplemental: 2, provided a molecular analysis and subgeneric taxonomy of some of the species. Yuan, Xia, Zheng, and Zeng, 2016, PeerJ, 4(e2786): 1–18, reported on the mitogenome and phylogenetics. Yan, Nneji, Jin, Yuan, Chen, Mi, Chen, Murphy, and Che, 2021, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 163 (107218): 1–7, reported on phylogenetics of the species within the genus, identified 2 unnamed lineages, identified regions of nuDNA and mtDNA discordance, and they performed predictive niche modeling. In general, a model revisionary work (DRF). Hofmann, Jablonski, Litvinchuk, Masroor, and Schmidt, 2021, PeerJ, 9 (e11793): 1–22, suggested on molecular grounds that Quasipaa is the sister taxon of Chrysopaa + Nanorana + Allopaa.  

Contained taxa (13 sp.):

Quasipaa acanthophora Dubois and Ohler, 2009
Quasipaa boulengeri (Günther, 1889)
Quasipaa courtoisi (Angel, 1922)
Quasipaa delacouri (Angel, 1928)
Quasipaa exilispinosa (Liu and Hu, 1975)
Quasipaa fasciculispina (Inger, 1970)
Quasipaa jiulongensis (Huang and Liu, 1985)
Quasipaa robertingeri (Wu and Zhao, 1995)
Quasipaa shini (Ahl, 1930)
Quasipaa spinosa (David, 1875)
Quasipaa taoi Pham, Hoang, Phan, Nguyen, and Ziegler, 2022
Quasipaa verrucospinosa (Bourret, 1937)
Quasipaa yei (Chen, Qu, and Jiang, 2002)

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