Allopaa Ohler and Dubois, 2006
Allopaa Ohler and Dubois, 2006, Zoosystema, 28: 780. Type species: Rana (Paa) hazarensis Dubois and Khan, 1979, by original designation.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Kashmir region of Pakistan and India.
Comment
Stated in the original publication to form the sister taxon of remaining Paini, although the results of 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, that Paini is paraphyletic was not addressed. The phylogenetic placement of this taxon was not addressed by Che, Hu, Zhou, Murphy, Papenfuss, Chen, Rao, Li, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 50: 59-73. The phylogenetic placement of this taxon was also not addressed by Che, Zhou, Hu, Papenfuss, Wake, and Zhang, 2010, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 107: 13765-13770, or Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583.
Contained taxa
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