Rhacophorinae
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The Rhacophorinae are a subfamily of
frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely semiaquatic group of short-bodied, tailless amphibian vertebrates composing the order (biology), order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek , literally 'without tail'). Frog species with rough ski ...
s in the family
Rhacophoridae The Rhacophoridae are a family of frogs 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 commonly known as ...
. They range from tropical Africa and Asia to temperate China and Japan.


Genera

The following genera are recognised in the subfamily Rhacophorinae, representing 422 species: * '' Beddomixalus'' Abraham, Pyron, Ansil, Zachariah, and Zachariah, 2013 (
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) * ''
Chirixalus ''Chirixalus'' is a genus of frogs in the moss frog family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms th ...
'' Boulenger, 1893 (six species) * ''
Chiromantis ''Chiromantis'' is a genus of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae, 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 (2 ...
'' 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 ''Ghatixalus'' is a genus of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae, subfamily Rhacophorinae. They are endemic to the Western Ghats of southern India. They are the sister taxon to a larger clade consisting of '' Chiromantis'', '' Feihyla'', '' Taru ...
'' Biju, Roelants, and Bossuyt, 2008 (three species) * ''
Gracixalus ''Gracixalus'' is a genus of shrub frogs (family Rhacophoridae) from south-eastern Asia. Phylogenetic evidence indicates that it is the sister genus to the genus '' Vampyrius'', which contains the vampire tree frog A vampire is a mythic ...
'' Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2005 (18 species) * '' Kurixalus'' Ye, Fei, and Dubois, 1999 (22 species) * '' Leptomantis'' Peters, 1867 (13 species) * '' Liuixalus'' Li, Che, Bain, Zhao, and Zhang, 2008 (six species) * '' Mercurana'' Abraham ''et al''., 2013 (monotypic) * ''
Nasutixalus ''Nasutixalus'' is a genus of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae. The genus is found in northeastern India and adjacent southeastern Tibet as well as western Yunnan (China); the range might extend into the adjacent Nepal and Myanmar. Common name r ...
'' Jiang, Yan, Wang, and Che, 2016 (three species) * '' Nyctixalus'' Boulenger, 1882 (three species) * ''
Philautus ''Philautus'' is a genus of shrub frogs in the family Rhacophoridae from Asia. Some species in this genus are now considered extinct by IUCN, while others are widespread and abundant (such as the recently described ''P. abundus'', which was spe ...
'' Gistel, 1848 (54 species) * ''
Polypedates ''Polypedates'' is a genus of frogs in the family (biology), family Rhacophoridae, the shrub frogs and Paleotropic tree frogs. They belong to subfamily Rhacophorinae. Members of this genus are collectively known as whipping frogs. They occur in ...
'' Tschudi, 1838 (25 species) * ''
Pseudophilautus ''Pseudophilautus'' is a genus of shrub frogs in the family Rhacophoridae endemic to the Western Ghats of southwestern India and to Sri Lanka where the majority of the species are found. Many of them are already extinct (marked with † in the s ...
'' Laurent, 1943 (80 species) * ''
Raorchestes ''Raorchestes'' is a genus of frogs in the subfamily Rhacophorinae that are found in mountainous regions of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and southern China. A recent study places ''Raorchestes'' as a sister taxon of '' Pseudophilautus''. Before ...
'' Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta, and Bossuyt, 2010 (74 species) * ''
Rhacophorus ''Rhacophorus'' is a genus of frogs in the shrub-frog family Rhacophoridae, which, with the related Hylidae, is one of the two genera of true tree frogs. They are found in China, India, Japan, and throughout Southeast Asia, including the island ...
'' Kuhl and Van Hasselt, 1822 (45 species) * '' Rohanixalus'' Biju, Garg, Gokulakrishnan, Chandrakasan, Thammachoti, Ren, Gopika, Bisht, Hamidy, and Shouche, 2020 (eight species) * '' Taruga'' Meegaskumbura, Meegaskumbura, Bowatte, Manamendra-Arachchi, Pethiyagoda, Hanken, and Schneider, 2010 (three species) * ''
Theloderma ''Theloderma'', the bug-eyed frogs, mossy frogs or warty frogs, is a genus of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae, subfamily Rhacophorinae. They are found from northeastern India and southern China, through Southeast Asia, to the Greater Sunda Isla ...
'' Tschudi, 1838 (28 species) * '' Vampyrius'' Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021 (monotypic) * ''
Zhangixalus ''Zhangixalus'' is a genus of frogs in the subfamily Rhacophorinae, family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relation ...
'' Li, Jiang, Ren, and Jiang, 2019 (40 species)


Phylogeny

The following phylogeny of Rhacophorinae is from Yu ''et al.'' (2008).


References

Rhacophoridae Amphibian subfamilies {{Rhacophoridae-stub