Mercurana

Mercurana
Mercurana myristicapalustris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Rhacophoridae
Genus:	Mercurana Abraham et al., 2013
Species:	M. myristicapalustris
Binomial name
Mercurana myristicapalustris Abraham et al., 2013

Mercurana is a group of frogs that live in trees in the family Rhacophoridae. Scientists named it for its only species Mercurana myristicapalustris, which lives in the Western Ghat Mountains in Kerala, India. The English name is for the singer Freddie Mercury, from the band Queen and the Latin name for "frog" (Rana).^[1][2] The frog is different from other frogs in that it has a lot of webbed skin on its toes, lives only in swamps, and lays its eggs on mud mixed with leaf litter.

1. ↑ 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.
2. ↑ "New frog species named after Freddie Mercury". kingsnake.com. OnlineHobbyist.com, Inc. 23 April 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2013.