Zakerana Howlader, 2011
Zakerana Howlader, 2011, Bangladesh Wildl. Bull., 5: 1. Type species: Rana limnocharis syhadrensis Annandale, 1919, by original designation.
English Names
South Asian Cricket Frogs (original publications).
Distribution
Sri Lanka and the Indian subcontinent west, north, and east to Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh.
Comment
Howlader, 2011, Bangladesh Wildl. Bull., 5: 1-7, noted that previous authors found two groups of nominal Fejervarya, not always more closely related to each other than to Sphaerotheca. By recognizing this genus the sought to resolve this problem. See further discussion under the Fejervarya account. Borthakur, Kalita, Hussain, and Sengupta, 2007, Zoos' Print J., 22: 2639-2643, compared the species of Assam, northwest India (as Fejervarya nepalensis, Fejervarya pierrei, Fejervarya syhadrensis, and Fejervarya teraiensis). Sri Lanka: Bopage, Wewalwala, Krvavac, Jovanovic, Safarek, and Pushpamal, 2011, Salamandra, 47: 173-177, reported a population as Fejervarya limnocharis in lowland forest in the Kanneliya Forest of southwestern Sri Lanka, although this is likely referrable to another taxon.
Contained taxa
- Zakerana asmati (Howlader, 2011)
- Zakerana brevipalmata (Peters, 1871)
- Zakerana caperata (Kuramoto, Joshy, Kurabayashi, and Sumida, 2008)
- Zakerana granosa (Kuramoto, Joshy, Kurabayashi, and Sumida, 2008)
- Zakerana greenii (Boulenger, 1905)
- Zakerana keralensis (Dubois, 1981)
- Zakerana kirtisinghei (Manamendra-Arachchi and Gabadage, 1996)
- Zakerana kudremukhensis (Kuramoto, Joshy, Kurabayashi, and Sumida, 2008)
- Zakerana mudduraja (Kuramoto, Joshy, Kurabayashi, and Sumida, 2008)
- Zakerana murthii (Pillai, 1979)
- Zakerana mysorensis (Rao, 1922)
- Zakerana nepalensis (Dubois, 1975)
- Zakerana nilagirica (Jerdon, 1854)
- Zakerana parambikulamana (Rao, 1937)
- Zakerana pierrei (Dubois, 1975)
- Zakerana rufescens (Jerdon, 1854)
- Zakerana sauriceps (Rao, 1937)
- Zakerana sengupti (Purkayastha and Matsui, 2012)
- Zakerana syhadrensis (Annandale, 1919)
- Zakerana teraiensis (Dubois, 1984)
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