Nidirana

Nidirana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Ranidae
Genus:	Nidirana; Dubois, 1992
Species
	See text

Nidirana is a genus of true frogs (Ranidae) from East and Southeast Asia. They are commonly known as music frogs. This genus contains numerous species that were formerly classified in the genus Babina, which is thought to be its sister genus.

Species

The following species are recognized within Nidirana:

Nidirana adenopleura (Boulenger, 1909)
Nidirana cangshanensis Liu, Hou & Rao, 2025
Nidirana chapaensis (Bourret, 1937)
Nidirana chongqingensis Ma & Wang, 2023
Nidirana daunchina (Chang, 1933)
Nidirana guangdongensis Lyu, Wan, and Wang, 2020
Nidirana guangxiensis Mo, Lyu, Huang, Liao, and Wang, 2021
Nidirana hainanensis (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2007)
Nidirana leishanensis Li, Wei, Xu, Cui, Fei, Jiang, Liu, and Wang, 2019
Nidirana lini (Chou, 1999)
Nidirana mangveni Lyu, Qi, and Y.-y. Wang, 2020
Nidirana nankunensis Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Lin, Liu, and Wang, 2017

Nidirana occidentalis Lyu, Yang, and Wang, 2020
Nidirana okinavana (Boettger, 1895)
Nidirana pleuraden (Boulenger, 1904)
Nidirana shiwandashanensis Chen, Peng, Li, and Liu, 2022
Nidirana shyhhuangi C.-F. Lin, Chang, Matsui, Shen, Tominaga & S.-M. Lin, 2025
Nidirana xiangica Lyu and Wang, 2020
Nidirana yaoica Lyu, Mo, Wan, Li, Pang, and Wang, 2019
Nidirana yeae Wei, Li, Liu, Cheng, Xu, and Wang, 2020

Nidirana noadihing Boruah, Deepak & Das, 2023

References

1 2 "Nidirana Dubois, 1992 | Amphibian Species of the World". amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
↑ "AmphibiaWeb Search". amphibiaweb.org. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
↑ Shuo Liu, Mian Hou and Dingqi Rao. 2025. A New Species of the Genus Nidirana Dubois, 1992 (Anura: Ranidae) from Yunnan Province, China. Ecologica Montenegrina. 83; 175-190. DOI: doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.83.18
↑ Ma Q. and Z. Wang. 2023. A New Species of Nidirana Dubois, 1992 (Anura, Ranidae) from Chongqing Municipality, China. Biodiversity Data Journal. 11: e101986. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.11.e101986
↑ Chun-Fu Lin, Chunwen Chang, Masafumi Matsui, Chin-Chia Shen, Atsushi Tominaga and Si-Min Lin. 2025. Description of A New Music Frog (Anura, Ranidae, Nidirana) critically endangered in Taiwan. ZooKeys. 1229: 245-273. DOI: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1229.139344
↑ Bitupan Boruah, V. Deepak and Abhijit Das. 2023. Musicians in the Marsh: A New Species of Music Frog (Anura: Ranidae: Nidirana) from Arunachal Pradesh, India. Zootaxa. 5374(1); 51-73. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5374.1.3

[:0-1] 1 2 "Nidirana Dubois, 1992 | Amphibian Species of the World". amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org. Retrieved 2022-08-08.

[2] "AmphibiaWeb Search". amphibiaweb.org. Retrieved 2022-08-08.

[3] Shuo Liu, Mian Hou and Dingqi Rao. 2025. A New Species of the Genus Nidirana Dubois, 1992 (Anura: Ranidae) from Yunnan Province, China. Ecologica Montenegrina. 83; 175-190. DOI: doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.83.18

[4] Ma Q. and Z. Wang. 2023. A New Species of Nidirana Dubois, 1992 (Anura, Ranidae) from Chongqing Municipality, China. Biodiversity Data Journal. 11: e101986. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.11.e101986

[5] Chun-Fu Lin, Chunwen Chang, Masafumi Matsui, Chin-Chia Shen, Atsushi Tominaga and Si-Min Lin. 2025. Description of A New Music Frog (Anura, Ranidae, Nidirana) critically endangered in Taiwan. ZooKeys. 1229: 245-273. DOI: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1229.139344

[6] Bitupan Boruah, V. Deepak and Abhijit Das. 2023. Musicians in the Marsh: A New Species of Music Frog (Anura: Ranidae: Nidirana) from Arunachal Pradesh, India. Zootaxa. 5374(1); 51-73. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5374.1.3