Adult exhibited at Museum of Discovery and Science (Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA)

Rhacophorus dennysi, the Chinese Gliding Frog or Chinese Flying Frog, is a species of frog in the Rhacophoridae family.

It is found in China, Laos, Burma, and Vietnam.

This frog is up to 4 inches long. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, ponds, irrigated land, and canals and ditches.

Females lay eggs in foam nests attached to branches and grasses overhanging water. They create nests by beating a frothy secretion into foam with their hind legs.

It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.

References

Media related to Rhacophorus dennysi at Wikimedia Commons

• van Dijk, P.P., Truong, N.Q., Stuart, B., Lau, M.W.N., Baorong, G., Huiqing, G. & Datong, Y. 2004. Rhacophorus dennysi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.

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