Indirana

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Indirana is a group of frogs in the bigger group Ranixalidae. These frogs live in the Western Ghat mountains in India. People sometimes call them Indian frogs in English.

Indirana frogs became different from all other frogs almost 50 million years ago. This is why scientists say Indirana gundia is one of the "Top 100 Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered Amphibians."

Description
Indirana frogs are small and not thick. They usually live in dead leaves on the forest floor or near streams. The tadpoles grow back legs much earlier than the tadpoles of other frogs do, and their tails do not have fins on them. These tadpoles can jump away when danger is near.


Taxonomy
These frogs are in the subfamily Ranixalinae in the family Ranidae, with Nannophrys and Nyctibatrachus. The Ranixalinae have been in the family Nyctibatrachidae depending on what scientists thought at the time. Darrel R. Frost et al. (2006) placed them within the family Petropedetidae.

Species
Scientists are still finding more Indirana frogs: They found Indirana salelkari in the Netravali Wildlife Sanctuary in the Indian state of Goa and wrote the first paper about it in 2015. The following species are recognised in the genus Indirana:
 Indirana beddomii (Günther, 1876)
 Indirana bhadrai Garg and Biju, 2016
 Indirana brachytarsus (Günther, 1876)
 Indirana chiravasi Padhye, Modak, and Dahanukar, 2014
 Indirana duboisi Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016
 Indirana gundia (Dubois, 1986)
 Indirana leithii (Boulenger, 1888)
 Indirana longicrus (Rao, 1937)
 Indirana paramakri Garg and Biju, 2016
 Indirana salelkari Modak, Dahanukar, and Padhye, 2015
 Indirana sarojamma Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016
 Indirana semipalmata (Boulenger, 1882)
 Indirana tysoni Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016
 Indirana yadera Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016

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