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Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Amphibia
Subclassis: Lissamphibia
Ordo: Anura
Subordo: Neobatrachia
Familia: Ranidae
Genus: Rana
Species: R. amurensis - R. areolata - R. arvalis - R. asiatica - R. aurora - R. berlandieri - R. blairi - R. boylii - R. brownorum - R. bwana - R. camerani - R. capito - R. cascadae - R. catesbeiana - R. chaochiaoensis - R. chensinensis - R. chevronta - R. chichicuahutla - R. chiricahuensis - R. clamitans - R. coreana - R. culaiensis - R. dalmatina - R. draytonii - R. dunni - R. dybowskii - R. eschatia - R. fisheri - R. forreri - R. graeca - R. grylio - R. hanluica - R. heckscheri - R. holtzi - R. huanrenensis - R. iberica - R. italica - R. japonica - R. johni - R. johnsi - R. juliani - R. kukunoris - R. kunyuensis - R. labialis - R. latastei - R. lemosespinali - R. longicrus - R. luteiventris - R. macrocnemis - R. macroglossa - R. maculata - R. magnaocularis - R. megapoda - R. miadis - R. montezumae - R. multidenticulata - R. muscosa - R. neovolcanica - R. okaloosae - R. omeimontis - R. omiltemana - R. onca - R. ornativentris - R. palmipes - R. palustris - R. parvaccola - R. pipiens - R. pirica - R. pretiosa - R. psilonota - R. pueblae - R. pustulosa - R. pyrenaica - R. rufipes - R. sakuraii - R. sauteri - R. septentrionalis - R. sevosa - R. shuchinae - R. sierrae - R. sierramadrensis - R. spectabilis - R. sphenocephala - R. sylvatica - R. tagoi - R. tarahumarae - R. taylori - R. temporaria - R. tlaloci - R. tsushimensis - R. vaillanti - R. vibicaria - R. virgatipes - R. warszewitschii - R. yavapaiensis - R. zhengi - R. zweifeli - R. zhenhaiensis

Name

Rana Linnaeus, 1758

Type species: Rana temporaria Linnaeus, 1758

Synonyms

* Rana Linnaeus, 1758
* Ranaria Rafinesque, 1814
* Lithobates Fitzinger, 1843
* Crotaphitis Schultze, 1891
* Amerana Dubois, 1992
* Aurorana Dubois, 1992
* Pseudoamolops Jiang, Fei, Ye, Zeng, Zhen, Xie & Chen, 1997
* Pseudoamolops — Fei, Ye & Jiang, 2000
* Laurasiarana Hillis & Wilcox, 2005

References

* Hillis, D.M. & Wilcox, T.P. (2005): Phylogeny of the New World true frogs (Rana). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34(2): 299–314. PDF fulltext
* Hillis, D. M. (2007) Constraints in naming parts of the Tree of Life. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 42: 331–338. PDF fulltext
* Amphibian Species of the World 5.1 Rana access date 05 July 2008
* Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., Ed. 10, 1: 210.

Note

Rana underwent a considerable revision by Frost et. al. and many species were transferred to other genera. However, some of these changes have not been accepted by other authors, and some of the changes by Frost et. al. have since been reversed as a result of phylogenetic analyses of virtually all the New World species (e.g., see Hillis and Wilcox 2005; Hillis 2007). The name Lithobates is restricted to the Rana palmipes group of Central and South America, and is considered a subgenus of Rana. All of the North and South American ranids are now placed in the genus Rana, along with the Rana temporaria group of Eurasia.

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Internationalization
English: True Frogs

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