Rhacophorinae

Rhacophorinae
Common tree frog (Polypedates leucomystax)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
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

As of April 2017, the "Amphibian Species of the World" lists 17 genera with altogether 402 species:[1]

Other taxa with uncertain status (species inquirenda):

Phylogeny

The following phylogeny of Rhacophorinae is from Yu et al. (2008).[3]

Rhacophorinae 


Liuixalus





Nyctixalus



Theloderma





Philautus, Kurixalus




Gracixalus




Chiromantis





Feihyla



Polypedates




Rhacophorus








References

  1. 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Rhacophorinae Hoffman, 1932 (1858)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  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. Yu, Guohua; Rao, Dingqi; Zhang, Mingwang; Yang, Junxing (2009). "Re-examination of the phylogeny of Rhacophoridae (Anura) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 50 (3): 571–579. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.11.023.


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