Nidirana is a genus of True frog (Ranidae) from East Asia 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 group.
Species
The following species are recognized within
Nidirana:
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Nidirana adenopleura (Boulenger, 1909)
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Nidirana cangshanensis Liu, Hou & Rao, 2025
[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]
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Nidirana chapaensis (Bourret, 1937)
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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]
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Nidirana daunchina (Chang, 1933)
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Nidirana guangdongensis Lyu, Wan, and Wang, 2020
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Nidirana guangxiensis Mo, Lyu, Huang, Liao, and Wang, 2021
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Nidirana hainanensis (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2007)
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Nidirana leishanensis Li, Wei, Xu, Cui, Fei, Jiang, Liu, and Wang, 2019
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Nidirana lini (Chou, 1999)
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Nidirana mangveni Lyu, Qi, and Y.-y. Wang, 2020
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Nidirana nankunensis Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Lin, Liu, and Wang, 2017
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Nidirana occidentalis Lyu, Yang, and Wang, 2020
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Nidirana okinavana (Boettger, 1895)
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Nidirana pleuraden (Boulenger, 1904)
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Nidirana shiwandashanensis Chen, Peng, Li, and Liu, 2022
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Nidirana shyhhuangi C.-F. Lin, Chang, Matsui, Shen, Tominaga & S.-M. Lin, 2025
[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]
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Nidirana xiangica Lyu and Wang, 2020
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Nidirana yaoica Lyu, Mo, Wan, Li, Pang, and Wang, 2019
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Nidirana yeae Wei, Li, Liu, Cheng, Xu, and Wang, 2020
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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]
