Wijayarana Arifin, Chan, Smart, Hertwig, Smith, Iskandar, and Haas, 2021

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Wijayarana
5 species

Wijayarana Arifin, Chan, Smart, Hertwig, Smith, Iskandar, and Haas, 2021, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 193: 687. Type species: Huia sumatrana Yang, 1991. lsid:zoobank.org:act: 4A7EC577-93DC-4A0D-851D-82B277E060E3

English Names

Wijaya Cascade Frogs ( Arifin, Chan, Smart, Hertwig, Smith, Iskandar, and Haas, 2021, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 193: 689)

Distribution

Kanchanaburi, Prachuap Kirikhan, and Chiang Mai Provinces in western and northern Thailand, western and northern Laos, and Xishuangban Prefecture, southern Yunnan, China; Java and Sumatra, Indonesia. 

Comment

See comment under Huia for access to literature of the species in this taxon and the rationale for its recognition. Arifin, Chan, Smart, Hertwig, Smith, Iskandar, and Haas, 2021, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 193: 673–699, provided a phylogenetic tree including this genus and close relatives, and noted at least two unnamed species in Sumatra. Arifin, Smart, Husemann, Hertwig, Smith, Iskandar, and Haas, 2022, Sci. Rep. (Nature, London), 12 (12013): 1–12, reported on molecular phylogeography on Sumatra.

Contained taxa (5 sp.):

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