''Rhacophorus'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" ''Triadobatrachus'' is ...

s in the shrub frog

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Rhacophoridae The Rhacophoridae are a family of frogs that occur in tropical sub-Saharan Africa, South India and Sri Lanka, Japan, northeastern India to eastern China and Taiwan, south through the Philippines and Greater Sundas, and Sulawesi. They are co ...

) and the related

Hylidae Hylidae is a wide-ranging family of frogs commonly referred to as "tree frogs and their allies". However, the hylids include a diversity of frog species, many of which do not live in trees, but are terrestrial or semiaquatic. Taxonomy and ...

make up the true tree frogs. They are found in India, Japan, Madagascar, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Over 40 species are currently recognised. These frogs have long toes with strong webbing between them, enabling the animals to slow their fall to a glide, a form of arboreal locomotion known as parachuting. They are, therefore, among the anurans commonly known as " flying frogs". The present genus is closely related to '' Polypedates'', which in former times was often included in ''Rhacophorus''. Even today, it is not fully resolved in which of these genera '' "P." feae'' and the Chinese flying frog (''"R." dennysi'') properly belong, and the supposedly new species ''"P. pingbianensis"'' has turned out to be the same as '' R. duboisi''. Rhacophorus arboreus Eggｓ in Mount Ryu 2011-09-29

Rhacophorus arboreus Eggｓ in Mount Ryu 2011-09-29

Reproduction

These frogs lay their eggs in aerial foam nests; upon hatching,

tadpole A tadpole is the larval stage in the biological life cycle of an amphibian. Most tadpoles are fully aquatic, though some species of amphibians have tadpoles that are terrestrial. Tadpoles have some fish-like features that may not be found ...

s drop to the water under the nest and complete their development there.Some species like Rhacophorus kio will wrap this and cover this foam nest with leaves.

Species

These species are recognised in the genus ''Rhacophorus'': * '' Rhacophorus annamensis'' Smith, 1924 – Annam flying frog * '' Rhacophorus baluensis'' Inger, 1954 * '' Rhacophorus barisani'' Harvey, Pemberton, and Smith, 2002 * '' Rhacophorus bengkuluensis'' Streicher, Hamidy, Harvey, Anders, Shaney, Kurniawan, and Smith, 2014 * '' Rhacophorus bifasciatus'' Van Kampen, 1923 * '' Rhacophorus bipunctatus'' Ahl, 1927 (including ''R. htunwini'') * '' Rhacophorus borneensis'' Matsui, Shimada, and Sudin, 2013 * '' Rhacophorus calcadensis'' Ahl, 1927 – Kalakad gliding frog * '' Rhacophorus calcaneus'' Smith, 1924 * '' Rhacophorus catamitus'' Harvey, Pemberton, and Smith, 2002 * '' Rhacophorus edentulus'' Müller, 1894 * '' Rhacophorus exechopygus'' Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999 * ''

Rhacophorus georgii ''Rhacophorus georgii'' (common name: Tuwa flying frog) is a species of flying frog in the family Rhacophoridae endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. Its type locality ("Tuwa, Paluthal, West-Central Celebes") cannot be located, but it has recently bee ...

'' Roux, 1904 * '' Rhacophorus helenae'' Rowley, Tran, Hoang & Le, 2012 – Helen's tree frog * '' Rhacophorus hoabinhensis'' Nguyen, Pham, Nguyen, Ninh, and Ziegler, 2017 * '' Rhacophorus hoanglienensis'' Orlov, Lathrop, Murphy, and Ho, 2001 * '' Rhacophorus indonesiensis'' Hamidy & Kurniati, 2015 * '' Rhacophorus kio'' Ohler & Delorme, 2005 – black-webbed treefrog * '' Rhacophorus laoshan'' Mo, Jiang, Xie, and Ohler, 2008 * '' Rhacophorus larissae'' Ostroshabov, Orlov, and Nguyen, 2013 * '' Rhacophorus lateralis'' Boulenger, 1883 * ''

Rhacophorus malabaricus The Malabar gliding frog or Malabar flying frog (''Rhacophorus malabaricus'') is a rhacophorid tree frog species found in the Western Ghats of India. Pictures The term "gliding" frog refers to its ability to break its fall by stretching ...

'' Jerdon, 1870 – Malabar gliding frog * '' Rhacophorus margaritifer'' (Schlegel, 1837) * '' Rhacophorus marmoridorsum'' Orlov, 2008 * '' Rhacophorus modestus'' Boulenger, 1920 * '' Rhacophorus monticola'' Boulenger, 1896 * '' Rhacophorus nigropalmatus'' Boulenger, 1895 – Wallace's flying frog * '' Rhacophorus norhayatii'' Chan and Grismer, 2010 * '' Rhacophorus orlovi'' Ziegler and Köhler, 2001 * '' Rhacophorus pardalis'' Günther, 1858 – harlequin tree frog * '' Rhacophorus poecilonotus'' Boulenger, 1920 * '' Rhacophorus pseudomalabaricus'' Vasudevan and Dutta, 2000 * '' Rhacophorus reinwardtii'' (Schlegel, 1840) – black-webbed tree frog, green flying frog, Reinwardt's tree frog * '' Rhacophorus rhodopus'' Liu and Hu, 1960 (including ''R. namdaphaensis'', often included in ''R. bipunctatus'') * '' Rhacophorus robertingeri'' Orlov, Poyarkov, Vassilieva, Ananjeva, Nguyen, Sang, and Geissler, 2012 * '' Rhacophorus spelaeus'' Orlov, Gnophanxay, Phimminith, and Phomphoumy, 2010 * '' Rhacophorus subansiriensis'' Mathew and Sen, 2009 * '' Rhacophorus translineatus'' Wu, 1977 * '' Rhacophorus tuberculatus'' (Anderson, 1871) * '' Rhacophorus turpes'' Smith, 1940 * '' Rhacophorus vampyrus'' Rowley, Le, Thi, Stuart, and Hoang, 2010 – vampire tree frog * '' Rhacophorus vanbanicus'' Kropachev, Orlov, Ninh, and Nguyen, 2019 * '' Rhacophorus verrucopus'' Huang, 1983 * '' Rhacophorus viridimaculatus'' Ostroshabov, Orlov, and Nguyen, 2013

Phylogeny

The following is a partial phylogeny of ''Rhacophorus'' from Pyron & Wiens (2011). Only nine species are included. ''Rhacophorus'' is a sister group of '' Polypedates''.

References

External links

Amphibian and Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia - Family Rhacophoridae
{{Taxonbar, from=Q943540 Amphibians of Asia Amphibian genera Taxa named by Heinrich Kuhl Taxa named by Johan Conrad van Hasselt