The curious case of Charles Darwin’s frog, Rana charlesdarwini Das, 1998: Phylogenetic position and generic placement, with taxonomic insights on other minervaryan frogs (Dicroglossidae: Minervarya) in the Andaman and Nicobar Archipelago.

• Main Authors: Indraneil, Das, Sonali, Garg, Sivaperuman, Chandrakasan, Gokulakrishnan, G., Gopika, C., Biju, S. D.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Senckenberg Society for Nature Research, Germany 2022
• Subjects: QL Zoology
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/38557/3/The%20curious%20case%20-%20Copy.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/38557/; https://www.senckenberg.de/de/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Since the description of Charles Darwin’s frog as Rana charlesdarwini in 1998, its generic placement has been a taxonomic enigma. Subsequent studies first transferred this species to the dicroglossid genus Limnonectes, and then considered it as a ceratobatrachid of the genus Ingerana, which has sinc...