Ranoidea (genus)

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

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]}

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Cite error: The named reference Frost was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
2. ↑ Cite error: The named reference Duellman et al. 2016 was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
3. ↑ Simmons, M.P. 2012. Misleading results of likelihood‐based phylogenetic analyses in the presence of missing data. Cladistics 28(2): 208-222. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00375.x)
4. ↑ Dunn, K.A., McEachran, J.D., & Honeycutt, R.L. 2003. Molecular phylogenetics of myliobatiform fishes (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes), with comments on the effects of missing data on parsimony and likelihood. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 27(2): 259-270. DOI: 10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00442-6
5. ↑ Kearney, M. 2002. Fragmentary taxa, missing data, and ambiguity: mistaken assumptions and conclusions. Systematic biology 51(2): 369-381. DOI:10.1080/10635150252899824
6. ↑ Xi, Z., Liu, L., & Davis, C.C. 2016. The impact of missing data on species tree estimation. Molecular Biology and Evolution 33(3): 838-860. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msv266
7. ↑ McDonald, K.R., Rowley, J.J., Richards, S.J., & Frankham, G.J. (2016). A new species of treefrog (Litoria) from Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Zootaxa 4171(1): 153-169. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.6