Rhacophorinae
| Rhacophorinae | |
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| Common tree frog (Polypedates leucomystax) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Rhacophoridae |
| Subfamily: | Rhacophorinae Hoffman, 1932 |
| Genera | |
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The Rhacophorinae are a subfamily of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae. They range from tropical Africa and Asia to temperate China and Japan.[1]
Genera
According to the "Amphibian Species of the World 5.6", the 14 genera are placed in the Rhacophorinae:[1]
- Chiromantis Peters, 1854 (15 species)
- Feihyla Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006 (two species)
- Ghatixalus Biju, Roelants, and Bossuyt, 2008 (two species)
- Gracixalus Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2005 (seven species)
- Kurixalus Ye, Fei, and Dubois, 1999 (10 species)
- Liuixalus Li, Che, Bain, Zhao, and Zhang, 2008 (five species)
- Mercurana Abraham et al., 2013[2] (one species)
- Nyctixalus Boulenger, 1882 (three species)
- Philautus Gistel, 1848 (50 species)
- Polypedates Tschudi, 1838 (23 species)
- Pseudophilautus Laurent, 1943 (70 species)
- Raorchestes Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta, and Bossuyt, 2010 (49 species)
- Rhacophorus Kuhl and Van Hasselt, 1822 (81 species)
- Taruga Meegaskumbura, Meegaskumbura, Bowatte, Manamendra-Arachchi, Pethiyagoda, Hanken, and Schneider, 2010 (three species)
- Theloderma Tschudi, 1838 (22 species)
Other taxa with uncertain status:
- Chirixalus is now considered a synonym of Chiromantis
- "Theloderma" moloch is included as incertae sedis in the Rhacophorinae.[1]
- Beddomixalus has been described as a new genus in 2013,[3] after the most recent update of the Amphibian Species of the World.
References
- 1 2 3 Frost, Darrel R. (2013). "Rhacophorinae Hoffman, 1932". Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
- ↑ Robin Kurian Abraham; 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.
- ↑ "Beddomixalus bijui". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
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