See text Wijayarana is a group of true frogs found in Southeast Asia.

[1][2][3] All species in this genus were previously classified in the genus Huia, which was found by a 2021 study to be paraphyletic; the type species Huia cavitympanum (the hole-in-the-head frog) was found to be related to the genus Meristogenys, whereas the remaining members of Huia were sister to this clade.

Due to this, the new genus Wijayarana was described to accommodate all members of Huia aside from H. cavitympanum.

The genus name is derived from wijaya, the Indonesian spelling of the Sanskrit word vijaya, meaning "victory", and references the former Srivijaya empire, whose territory closely resembles the distribution of the genus.

[4] In another incidence of convergent evolution yielding adaptation to habitat, the tadpoles of Amolops, Wijayarana, Huia, Meristogenys as well as Rana sauteri have a raised and usually well-developed sucker on their belly.