Ranoidea (genus)

This article is about a genus of frogs. For the superfamily of frogs, see Ranoidea (superfamily).

Ranoidea is a genus of frogs in the subfamily Pelodryadinae. They live in Australia, New Guinea, the Maluku Islands, and the Louisiade Archipelago.^[1] Scientists still disagree with each other about whether Ranoidea should be its own genus or not and which frogs should be in it. Many of the frogs in Ranoidea used to be in Litoria, Dryopsophus, or Hyla. In 2016, one team of scientists wrote a paper saying Litoria should be divided up into other genuses. Many other amphibian scientists read it and agreed, but some did not.^[1][2] One reason for this was that not all of the frogs in Litoria had been studied on the DNA level.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

Ranoidea
Ranoidea aurea, the type species
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Pelodryadidae
Subfamily:	Pelodryadinae
Genus:	Ranoidea Tschudi, 1838
Type species
Ranoidea jacksoniensis Tschudi, 1838
Synonyms[1]
Dryopsophus Fitzinger, 1843 Euscelis Fitzinger, 1843 Pelodryas Günther, 1859 "1858" Cyclorana Steindachner, 1867 Phractops Peters, 1867 Chirodryas Keferstein, 1867 Mitrolysis Cope, 1889 Fanchonia Werner, 1893 Brendanura Wells and Wellington, 1985 Neophractops Wells and Wellington, 1985 Mosleyia Wells and Wellington, 1985

Description and ecology

All frogs in Ranoidea have side-to-side pupils that open up-and-down and no coloring in their eyelid membrane. Many species have tadpoles that swim in mountain streams and have very large mouths on the undersides of their bodies.^[2]

Species

The following species are or were recognized in the genus Ranoidea:^[1]

• Ranoidea alboguttata (Günther, 1867) - Striped burrowing frog
• Ranoidea andiirrmalin (McDonald, 1997) - Cape Melville tree frog
• Ranoidea aruensis (Horst, 1883) - Aru tree frog
• Ranoidea auae (Menzies and Tyler, 2004)
• Ranoidea aurea (Lesson, 1829) - Green and golden bell frog
• Ranoidea australis (Gray, 1842) - Northern snapping frog, Australian water-holding frog, giant ground frog
• Ranoidea barringtonensis (Copland, 1957) - Mountain stream tree frog
• Ranoidea becki (Loveridge, 1945) - Beck's tree frog
• Ranoidea bella (McDonald, Rowley, Richards, and Frankham, 2016) - Cape York graceful tree frog
• Ranoidea booroolongensis (Moore, 1961) - Booroolong frog
• Ranoidea brevipes (Peters, 1871) - Short-footed frog
• Ranoidea brongersmai (Loveridge, 1945) - Brongersma's tree frog
• Ranoidea bulmeri (Tyler, 1968) - Bulmer's tree frog
• Ranoidea caerulea (White, 1790)
• Ranoidea callista (Kraus, 2013)
• Ranoidea cavernicola (Tyler and Davies, 1979) - Cave-dwelling frog
• Ranoidea chloris (Boulenger, 1892) - Orange-eyed tree frog
• Ranoidea citropa (Péron, 1807) - Blue Mountains tree frog
• Ranoidea cryptotis (Tyler and Martin, 1977) - Hidden-ear frog
• Ranoidea cultripes (Parker, 1940) - Knife-footed frog
• Ranoidea cyclorhynchus (Boulenger, 1882) - Spotted-thighed frog
• Ranoidea dahlii (Boulenger, 1896) - Dahl's aquatic frog
• Ranoidea daviesae (Mahony, Knowles, Foster, and Donnellan, 2001) - Davies' tree frog
• Ranoidea dayi (Günther, 1897) - Australian lace-lid
• Ranoidea dorsivena (Tyler, 1968) - Eastern mountains tree frog
• Ranoidea elkeae (Günther and Richards, 2000)
• Ranoidea eschata (Kraus and Allison, 2009)
• Ranoidea eucnemis (Lönnberg, 1900) - Fringed tree frog
• Ranoidea exophthalmia (Tyler, Davies, and Aplin, 1986)
• Ranoidea fuscula (Oliver and Richards, 2007)
• Ranoidea genimaculata (Horst, 1883) - Green-eyed tree frog
• Ranoidea gilleni (Spencer, 1896) - Centralian tree frog
• Ranoidea gracilenta (Peters, 1869) - Dainty green tree frog
• Ranoidea graminea (Boulenger, 1905) - Northern New Guinea tree frog
• Ranoidea impura (Peters and Doria, 1878)
• Ranoidea jungguy (Donnellan and Mahony, 2004) - Jungguy frog
• Ranoidea kroombitensis (Hoskin, Hines, Meyer, Clarke, and Cunningham, 2013) - Kroombit frog
• Ranoidea kumae (Menzies and Tyler, 2004)
• Ranoidea lesueurii (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) - LeSueur's frog
• Ranoidea longipes (Tyler and Martin, 1977) - Kimberly water-holding frog
• Ranoidea lorica (Davies and McDonald, 1979) - Armoured frog
• Ranoidea macki (Richards, 2001)
• Ranoidea maculosa (Tyler and Martin, 1977) - Olive water-holding frog, Daly Waters frog
• Ranoidea maini (Tyler and Martin, 1977) - Main's frog
• Ranoidea manya (Van Beurden and McDonald, 1980) - Small frog
• Ranoidea moorei (Copland, 1957) - Motorbike frog
• Ranoidea myola (Hoskin, 2007) - Kuranda tree frog
• Ranoidea nannotis (Andersson, 1916) - Waterfall frog
• Ranoidea napaea (Tyler, 1968) - Snow Mountains tree frog
• Ranoidea novaehollandiae (Steindachner, 1867) - New Holland frog
• Ranoidea nudidigita (Copland, 1963) - Narrow fringed frog, leaf green tree frog
• Ranoidea nyakalensis (Liem, 1974) - Mountain mist frog
• Ranoidea occidentalis (Anstis, Price, Roberts, Catalano, Hines, Doughty, and Donnellan, 2016) - Western water-holding frog
• Ranoidea pearsoniana (Copland, 1961) - Pearson's green tree frog
• Ranoidea phyllochroa (Günther, 1863) - Leaf green tree frog
• Ranoidea piperata (Tyler and Davies, 1985) - Peppered tree frog
• Ranoidea platycephala (Günther, 1873) - Eastern water-holding frog
• Ranoidea pratti (Boulenger, 1911) - Pratt's tree frog
• Ranoidea raniformis (Keferstein, 1867) - Growling grass frog
• Ranoidea rara (Günther and Richards, 2005)
• Ranoidea rheocola (Liem, 1974) - Common mist frog
• Ranoidea rivicola (Günther and Richards, 2005)
• Ranoidea robinsonae (Oliver, Stuart-Fox, and Richards, 2008)
• Ranoidea rueppelli (Boettger, 1895) - Rueppel's big-eyed tree frog
• Ranoidea serrata (Andersson, 1916) - Green-eyed tree frog
• Ranoidea spenceri (Dubois, 1984) - Spencer's tree frog
• Ranoidea spinifera (Tyler, 1968) - Spiny tree frog
• Ranoidea splendida (Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1977) - Magnificent tree frog
• Ranoidea subglandulosa (Tyler and Anstis, 1983) - New England tree frog
• Ranoidea vagitus (Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981) - Wailing frog
• Ranoidea verrucosa (Tyler and Martin, 1977) - Rough frog
• Ranoidea wilcoxii (Günther, 1864) - Wilcox's frog
• Ranoidea xanthomera (Davies, McDonald, and Adams, 1986) - Orange-thighed frog

Scientists also think the Papua big-eyed tree frog (Van Kampen, 1909) might be in Ranoidea but they want to collect more data about where the frog lives first.