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The family\n                    <jats:italic>Ranidae<\/jats:italic>\n                    is one of the ecologically most successful groups of anurans, with the genus\n                    <jats:italic>Rana<\/jats:italic>\n                    being distributed broadly in Eurasia. However, there are relatively sparse detailed studies on the development of the vertebral column in\n                    <jats:italic>Rana<\/jats:italic>\n                    species, and images of the entire axial skeleton have seldom been illustrated till date. Here, we provide an illustrated description on the development of the entire vertebral column in\n                    <jats:italic>Rana kobai<\/jats:italic>\n                    , a Japanese small frog from the Amami Islands. Our observation of double\u2010stained skeletal specimens revealed that in\n                    <jats:italic>R. kobai<\/jats:italic>\n                    , the original atlas and the first dorsal are fused into one vertebra, and the ninth neural arch is fused with the tenth arch in half of the examined larvae. Anuran vertebral column development is classified into two modes, perichordal and epichordal.\n                    <jats:italic>Rana<\/jats:italic>\n                    species undergo the typical perichordal mode of centrum formation. Kemp and Hoyt (1969) described that centrum formation in\n                    <jats:italic>R. pipiens<\/jats:italic>\n                    starts from a saddle\u2010shaped bone on the dorsal half of the notochord. Nevertheless, our detailed observations revealed that centrum ossification initially emerges at the base of the paired neural arches and then forms the saddle\u2010shaped bone. In\n                    <jats:italic>Xenopus<\/jats:italic>\n                    , a species with epichordal centra, centrum formation starts from a pair of ovoid bone elements at the base of the neural arches. Overall, our results imply that centrum ossification starts from the base of neural arches in anurans, irrespective of whether it is perichordal or epichordal. Our observations also revealed the presence of the crescent\u2010shaped cartilage domain in the intervertebral region in\n                    <jats:italic>R. kobai<\/jats:italic>\n                    . The location of the crescent\u2010shaped domain in\n                    <jats:italic>R. kobai<\/jats:italic>\n                    is consistent with that of the intercentrum in\n                    <jats:italic>Ichthyostega<\/jats:italic>\n                    and several temnospondyls. 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