Ramanella Rao and Ramanna, 1925

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae > Genus: Ramanella

Ramanella Rao and Ramanna, 1925, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1925: 587. Type species: Ramanella symbioitica Rao and Ramanna, 1925 (= Callula variegata Stoliczka, 1872), by monotypy

English Names

Dot Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 92).

Distribution

Southeastern India and Sri Lanka.

Comment

The species described by Rao, 1937, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., Ser. B, 6: 387-427, are of doubtful validity and the types are probably no longer in existence. Rao's illustrations depict somewhat desiccated specimens according to R.F. Inger in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 389. Ramaswami, 1937 "1936", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1936: 1137-1155, considered Ramanella (at least some of the species) to be a synonym of Kaloula, but this was not accepted by subsequent authors. Formerly in the Old World component of Microhylinae; 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: 225, removed Ramanella from any subfamily pending resolution of its phylogenetic placement. Transferred to Microhylinae by Van Bocxlaer, Roelants, Biju, Nagaraju, and Bossuyt, 2006, PLoS One, 1: 1-6. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, considered Ramanella to be the sister taxon of Uperodon.

Contained taxa

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