Rhacophorinae

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Rhacophorinae
Common tree frog (Polypedates leucomystax)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: "Amphibia" (wide sense)
Order: Anura
Family: Rhacophoridae
Subfamily: Rhacophorinae
Hoffman, 1932
Genera

See text.

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", there are 14 genera currently placed in Rhacophorinae:[1]

  • Chiromantis Peters, 1854 (15 sp.)
  • Feihyla Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006 (2 sp.)
  • Ghatixalus Biju, Roelants, and Bossuyt, 2008 (2 sp.)
  • Gracixalus Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2005 (7 sp.)
  • Kurixalus Ye, Fei, and Dubois, 1999 (10 sp.)
  • Liuixalus Li, Che, Bain, Zhao, and Zhang, 2008 (3 sp.)
  • Mercurana Abraham et al., 2013[2] (1 sp.)
  • Nyctixalus Boulenger, 1882 (3 sp.)
  • Philautus Gistel, 1848 (50 sp.)
  • Polypedates Tschudi, 1838 (23 sp.)
  • Pseudophilautus Laurent, 1943 (70 sp.)
  • Raorchestes Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta, and Bossuyt, 2010 (49 sp.)
  • Rhacophorus Kuhl and Van Hasselt, 1822 (81 sp.)
  • Taruga Meegaskumbura, Meegaskumbura, Bowatte, Manamendra-Arachchi, Pethiyagoda, Hanken, and Schneider, 2010 (3 sp.)
  • Theloderma Tschudi, 1838 (22 sp.)

Other taxa with uncertain status:

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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. 
  2. 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. 
  3. "Beddomixalus bijui". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2013. 
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