Ranixalidae is a

family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...

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 commonly known as the leaping frogs or Indian frogs. They are

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to central and southern India, specifically in the Western Ghat mountain range. This mountain range encompasses the Indian states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu. Ranixalidae can be found in Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, and Kerala. There is a large concentration of them in Goa and Maharashtra, however there are still considerable amounts of species within the southern Indian states of Karnataka and Kerala, where there are other frogs within the ''Indirana'' genus. Scientists say the two groups of frogs in Ranixalidae, ''Indirana'' and ''Walkerana'', split around 58.4 million years ago.

Genera

There are two genera with a total 18 species: *''

Indirana ''Indirana'' is a genus of frogs in the family Ranixalidae. These frogs are endemic to the Western Ghats of India. They are sometimes known under the common name Indian frogs, whereas members of their parent family are named "leaping frogs". ...

'' Laurent, 1986 — 14 species *''

Walkerana ''Walkerana'' is a genus of frogs in the family Ranixalidae. The genus is endemic to the Western Ghats in the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, India. It was erected in 2016 to host three species of ''Indirana'' that represented a genetically an ...

'' Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016 — 4 species The respective species counts in the AmphibiaWeb are 15 (because '' Indirana tenuilingua'', a '' nomen inquirendum'', is listed) and three (''

Walkerana muduga ''Walkerana muduga'', also known as the Muduga mountain leaping frog or Muduga leaping frog, is a species of frog in the family Ranixalidae. It is Endemism, endemic to the Western Ghats of India and known from the Elivai Malai range, north of t ...

'' Dinesh ''et al''., 2020 not (yet) listed).

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q14612656 Endemic fauna of India