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Rhacophorinae

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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

The following genera are recognised in the subfamily Rhacophorinae, representing 422 species:[1]

  • Beddomixalus Abraham, Pyron, Ansil, Zachariah, and Zachariah, 2013 (monotypic)
  • Chirixalus Boulenger, 1893 (six species)
  • Chiromantis Peters, 1854 (four species)
  • Feihyla Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006 (six species)
  • Ghatixalus Biju, Roelants, and Bossuyt, 2008 (three species)
  • Gracixalus Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2005 (18 species)
  • Kurixalus Ye, Fei, and Dubois, 1999 (22 species)
  • Leptomantis Peters, 1867 (13 species)
  • Mercurana Abraham et al., 2013[2] (monotypic)
  • Nasutixalus Jiang, Yan, Wang, and Che, 2016 (three species)
  • Nyctixalus Boulenger, 1882 (three species)
  • Philautus Gistel, 1848 (54 species)
  • Polypedates Tschudi, 1838 (25 species)
  • Pseudophilautus Laurent, 1943 (80 species)
  • Raorchestes Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta, and Bossuyt, 2010 (74 species)
  • Rhacophorus Kuhl and Van Hasselt, 1822 (45 species)
  • Rohanixalus Biju, Garg, Gokulakrishnan, Chandrakasan, Thammachoti, Ren, Gopika, Bisht, Hamidy, and Shouche, 2020 (eight species)
  • Romerus Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021 (six species)
  • Taruga Meegaskumbura, Meegaskumbura, Bowatte, Manamendra-Arachchi, Pethiyagoda, Hanken, and Schneider, 2010 (three species)
  • Theloderma Tschudi, 1838 (28 species)
  • Vampyrius Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021 (monotypic)
  • Zhangixalus Li, Jiang, Ren, and Jiang, 2019 (40 species)

Phylogeny

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

Rhacophorinae

Romerus

Nyctixalus

Theloderma

Philautus, Kurixalus

Gracixalus

Chiromantis

Feihyla

Polypedates

Rhacophorus

References

  1. ^ a b 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. PMID 26000411.
  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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Rhacophorinae: Brief Summary

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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.

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