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== Evolution ==
The Ranidae are related to several other frog families that have [[Eurasia|Eurasian]] and [[India|Indian]] origins, including [[Rhacophoridae]], [[Dicroglossidae]], [[Nyctibatrachidae]], [[Micrixalus|Micrixalidae]], and [[Ranixalidae]]. They are thought to be most closely related to the Indian-endemic Nyctibatrachidae, from which they diverged in the early [[Eocene]]. However, other studies recover a closer relationship with the Dicroglossidae.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Feng |first1=Yan-Jie |last2=Blackburn |first2=David C. |last3=Liang |first3=Dan |last4=Hillis |first4=David M. |last5=Wake |first5=David B. |last6=Cannatella |first6=David C. |last7=Zhang |first7=Peng |date=2017-07-18 |title=Phylogenomics reveals rapid, simultaneous diversification of three major clades of Gondwanan frogs at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=114 |issue=29 |pages=E5864–E5870 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1704632114 |issn=0027-8424 |pmc=5530686 |pmid=28673970|doi-access=free |bibcode=2017PNAS..114E5864F }}</ref><ref name=":1" />

It was previously thought that the Ranidae and their closest relatives were of [[Gondwana|Gondwanan]] origins, having evolved on [[Insular India]] during the [[Cretaceous]]. They were then entirely restricted to the [[Indian subcontinent]] until the late [[Eocene]], when [[Paleogeography of the India–Asia collision system|India collided with Asia]], allowing the Ranidae to colonize Eurasia and eventually the rest of the world.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Bossuyt |first1=Franky |last2=Brown |first2=Rafe M. |last3=Hillis |first3=David M. |last4=Cannatella |first4=David C. |last5=Milinkovitch |first5=Michel C. |date=2006-08-01 |title=Phylogeny and Biogeography of a Cosmopolitan Frog Radiation: Late Cretaceous Diversification Resulted in Continent-Scale Endemism in the Family Ranidae |journal=Systematic Biology |volume=55 |issue=4 |pages=579–594 |doi=10.1080/10635150600812551 |pmid=16857652 |issn=1076-836X|doi-access=free |hdl=1808/10752 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> However, more recent studies instead propose that the Ranidae originated in Eurasia, and their close relationship with India-endemic frog lineages is due to those lineages colonizing India from Eurasia during the [[Paleogene]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Karanth |first=K. Praveen |date=2021 |title=Dispersal vs. vicariance: the origin of India's extant tetrapod fauna |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5wb5p6dt |journal=Frontiers of Biogeography |language=en |volume=13 |issue=1 |doi=10.21425/F5FBG48678|s2cid=231519470 |doi-access=free }}</ref>