''Chiromantis'' is a genus of

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 family

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 com ...

, commonly known as foam-nest frogs or foam-nest tree frogs. It contains species from the Sub-Saharan African tropics. Following the molecular genetic study by Chen and colleagues (2020), the Asian species formerly assigned to ''Chiromantis'' have now been reclassified to the resurrected genus '' Chirixalus''.

Description

''Chiromantis'' lay their eggs in terrestrial foam nests.

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus ''Chiromantis'': * '' Chiromantis kelleri'' Boettger, 1893 * '' Chiromantis petersii'' Boulenger, 1882 * '' Chiromantis rufescens'' (Günther, 1869) * '' Chiromantis xerampelina'' Peters, 1854

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Chiromantis
at CalPhotos {{Taxonbar, from=Q783349 Rhacophoridae Amphibian genera Amphibians of Sub-Saharan Africa Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters