Ingerana Xizangensis
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''Ingerana'' is a
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frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely semiaquatic group of short-bodied, tailless amphibian vertebrates composing the order (biology), order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek , literally 'without tail'). Frog species with rough ski ...
s in the Family (biology), family Dicroglossidae. Species of the genus are distributed in southeastern Asia, from Nepal, northeastern India, and southwestern China to Indochina, Borneo, and the Philippines. They are sometimes known Common name, commonly as the eastern frogs.


Etymology

The genus ''Ingerana'' is named in honor of American herpetologist Robert F. Inger.


Species

With the placement of ''Ingerana baluensis'' being enigmatic, several species having been transferred to ''Limnonectes'' in 2013 (''Ingerana alpina'', ''Ingerana liui'', ''Ingerana medogensis'', ''Ingerana xizangensis''), and one species being transferred to ''Minervarya'' in 2022 (''Minervarya charlesdarwini, Ingerana charlesdarwini''), this genus is left the following species: * ''Ingerana borealis'' (Nelson Annandale, Annandale, 1912) * ''Ingerana reticulata'' (Zhao Ermi, Zhao & species:Sheng-Quan Li, S.-Q. Li, 1984) * ''Ingerana tenasserimensis'' (William Lutley Sclater, Sclater, 1892)


References

Ingerana, Dicroglossidae Amphibians of Asia Amphibian genera {{dicroglossidae-stub