Mercurana is a genus of arboreal frogs belonging to the family Rhacophoridae. The genus was named from the only known species Mercurana myristicapalustris, which was described in 2013 from the Western Ghats of Kerala, India. The generic name was derived from and given as a tribute to Freddie Mercury, the late vocalist of the British rock band Queen, in combination with the Latin name for "frog" (Rana, which is also the name of the most common frog genus).[1][2] The frog is different from other related frogs in that it has extensively webbed toes, lives only in swampy lowlands, and lays its eggs on mud with which it carefully mixes leaf litter.
^Abraham, Robin Kurian; R. Alexander Pyron; Ansil B. R.; Arun Zachariah; Anil Zachariah (2013). "Two novel genera and one new species of treefrog (Anura: Rhacophoridae) highlight cryptic diversity in the Western Ghats of India". Zootaxa. 3640 (2): 177–189. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3640.2.3. PMID 26000411.
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Mercurana is a genus of arboreal frogs belonging to the family Rhacophoridae. The genus was named from the only known species Mercurana myristicapalustris...
in the Eifelian stage of the Middle Devonian Clockwise from top left: Mercurana myristicapaulstris, a shrub frog; Dermophis mexicanus, a legless amphibian;...
crowd at the Olympic Stadium responding appropriately. The frog genus Mercurana, discovered in 2013 in Kerala, India, was named as a tribute because Mercury's...
Pedostibes, Ghatophryne and Xanthophryne, and arboreal frogs like Ghatixalus, Mercurana and Beddomixalus, and microhylids like Melanobatrachus are endemic to...
(2018). "Reproduction and metamorphosis in the Myristica Swamp tree frog, Mercurana myristicapalustris (Anura: Rhacophoridae)". PeerJ. 6: e5934. doi:10.7717/peerj...
Leptomantis Peters, 1867 Liuixalus Li, Che, Bain, Zhao, and Zhang, 2008 Mercurana Abraham et al., 2013 Nasutixalus Jiang, Yan, Wang, and Che, 2016 Nyctixalus...
Genus Ghatixalus Genus Gracixalus Genus Kurixalus Genus Liuixalus Genus Mercurana Genus Nasutixalus Genus Nyctixalus Genus Philautus Genus Polypedates Genus...
species) Liuixalus Li, Che, Bain, Zhao, and Zhang, 2008 (six species) Mercurana Abraham et al., 2013 (monotypic) Nasutixalus Jiang, Yan, Wang, and Che...
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