Humerana Dubois, 1992
Humerana Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324. Type species: Rana humeralis Boulenger, 1887, by original designation. Proposed as a subgenus of Rana.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Eastern Nepal, northeastern India, and eastern Bangladesh at low elevations; presumably in intermediate regions of Bhutan and India through Myanmar and Peninsular Thailand to Malaya.
Comment
In the Section Hylarana, subsection Hydrophylax, subgenus Humerana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324. 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: 250, regarded Humerana as a genus, rather than a subgenus of Rana, pending its phylogenetic placement. Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13, did not address this taxon. Matsui, Shimada, Ota, and Tanaka-Ueno, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 37: 733-742, found Humerana (exemplar Humerana miopus) to be imbedded phylogenetically within Hylarana sensu Frost et al. (2006) and therefore within Hylarana sensu Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences confirmed the placement of Humerana miopus within Hylarana, although their adoption of a paraphyletic and antiquated taxonomy makes this difficult to appreciate. Hasan, Islam, Khan, Alam, Kurabayashi, Igawa, Kuramoto, and Sumida, 2012, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 29: 162-172, also confirmed the placement of Humerana within Hylarana.
Contained taxa
- Humerana humeralis (Boulenger, 1887)
- Humerana miopus (Boulenger, 1918)
- Humerana oatesii (Boulenger, 1892)
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