Zakerana
| Zakerana | |
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| Zakerana keralensis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Dicroglossidae |
| Subfamily: | Dicroglossinae |
| Genus: |
Zakerana Howlader, 2011 |
| Type species | |
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Rana limnocharis syhadrensis Annandale, 1919 |
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| Diversity | |
| 20 species, see text | |
Zakerana is a genus of frogs in the Dicroglossidae family from southern Asia (Sri Lanka, the Indian subcontinent including Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh), and Nepal and Bhutan. They are sometimes known as the South Asian cricket frogs. The genus was described in 2011 and named in respect of the founder of Zoology department in Dhaka University Dr Kazi Zaker Hossain.
Zakerana were split off from Fejervarya in 2011. This was the culmination of recognizing that Fejervarya (as known before) was paraphyletic and consisted of two different groups; this recognition had already developing some years before. The sister taxon of Zakerana is Sphaerotheca.Fejervarya, as currently defined, has a more eastern distribution than the southern Asiatic Zakerana, from eastern India eastwards.
There are 20 species in this genus:
The following phylogeny of Zakerana is from Pyron & Wiens (2011). 9 species are included.
Howlader, et. al (2016) gives a different phylogeny. 11 species are included.
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