Babina Thompson, 1912

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Babina
2 species

Babina Thompson, 1912, Herpetol. Notices, 1: 1 (June 15). Type species: Rana holsti Boulenger, 1892, by original designation. Considered synonymous with Hylarana by Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 225-284, but considered a distinct genus by Okada, 1966, Fauna Japon., Anura: 138-143; considered a subgenus of Rana by Nakamura and Ueno, 1963, Japan. Rept. Amph. Color: 54. Equivalent to the Rana holstii group of Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 1-226. Resurrected as a subgenus by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 523. Equivalent to the Rana (Hylorana) holsti group of Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 129-130. Barbour, 1917, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 44: 6 (footnote) says that he has no evidence to doubt the printed dates of publication but he did note that he received all three of Thomson's papers at the same time and implied on the basis of no clear evidentiary basis that they may be erroneous (DRF). 

Babina Van Denburgh, 1912, Adv. Diagn. New Rept. Amph. Loo Choo Is. Formosa: 3. (July 29, 1912.) Type species: Rana holsti Boulenger, 1892, by original designation. Objective synonym and preoccupied by Babina Van Denburgh, 1912, according to Barbour, 1917, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 44: 1-9. Synonymy with Hylarana by Boulenger, 1917, C. R. Hebd. Séances Acad. Sci., Paris, 165: 989; Boulenger, 1918, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 1: 238.

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 

Comment

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: 139, suggested that Babina is the sister taxon of their Huia. Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13, also recognized Babina as the sister taxon of their Odorrana (a subset of Huia sensu Frost et al., 2006).  Kurabayashi, Yoshikawa, Sato, Hayashi, Oumi, Fujii, and Sumida, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 56: 543-553, provided the first molecular study that inluded the type species, Babina holsti, and found Babina (sensu lato, including Nidirana) to be monophyletic and possibly the sister taxon of Odorrana. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study, although not with a complete selection of Nidirana species, confirmed the placement of Babina as the sister taxon of Odorrana. Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Lin, Liu, and Wang, 2017, Amphibia-Reptilia, 38: 483–502, reported on molecular phylogenetics, placing Babina (sensu stricto) as the sister taxon of Nidirana and together the sister taxon of Odorrana. 

Contained taxa (2 sp.):

Babina holsti (Boulenger, 1892)
Babina subaspera (Barbour, 1908)

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