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, 2025Shuo 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 Nidirana chapaensis (Bourret, 1937) Nidirana chongqingensis Ma & Wang, 2023 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 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, 2025Chun-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 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 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
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