This has credited Indirana gundia as a status of one of the "Top 100 Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered Amphibians".

[4] The tadpoles have hind limbs and finless tails, and are able to leap away to escape threats.

[5][6] Traditional classifications place the genus within the subfamily Ranixalinae of the family Ranidae, along with the genera Nannophrys and Nyctibatrachus.

[8] Darrel R. Frost et al. (2006) placed them within the family Petropedetidae.

[9][10] New species are still being discovered: Indirana salelkari was discovered in the Netravali Wildlife Sanctuary in the Indian state of Goa and described in late July 2015.