Rhacophorinae

Rhacophorus malabaricus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Rhacophoridae
Subfamilia: Rhacophorinae
Genera (22): Beddomixalus – Chirixalus – Chiromantis – Feihyla – Ghatixalus – Gracixalus – Kurixalus – Leptomantis – Mercurana – Nasutixalus – Nyctixalus – Philautus – Polypedates – Pseudophilautus – Raorchestes – Rhacophorus – Rohanixalus – Romerus – Taruga – Theloderma – Vampyrius – Zhangixalus
Nomina inquirenda (1): Dendrobatorana

Name

Rhacophorinae Hoffmann, 1932: 581

• Type genus: Rhacophorus Kuhl & Van Hasselt, 1822.

Synonymy

• Polypedatidae Günther, 1858
• Polypedatina — Mivart, 1869
• Polypedatinae — Boulenger, 1888
• Polypedatidae — Noble, 1927
• Rhacophorinae — Laurent, 1943
• Racophoridae — Hellmich, 1957
• Philautinae Dubois, 1981
• Philautini — Dubois, 1987
• Rhacophorini — Dubois, 1992

References

Primary references

• Hoffman, A.C. 1932. Researches relating to the validity of the South African Polypedatidae (Rhacophoridae) as an autonomous family of the Anura. South African Journal of Science 29: 562–583.
• Dubois, A. 1992. Notes sur la classification des Ranidae (Amphibiens anoures). Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 61: 305–352.

Additional references

• Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P.E., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–370. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5781 . Reference page. 
• Abraham, R.K., Pyron, R.A., Ansil, B.R., Zachariah, A. & Zachariah, A. 2013. Two novel genera and one new species of treefrog (Anura: Rhacophoridae) highlight cryptic diversity in the Western Ghats of India. Zootaxa 3640(2): 177–199. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3640.2.3 Reference page. 
• Jiang, D., Jiang, K., Ren, J.-L., Wu, J. & Li, J.-T. 2019. Resurrection of the genus Leptomantis, with description of a new genus to the family Rhacophoridae (Amphibia: Anura). Asian Herpetological Research 10(1): 1–12. DOI: 10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.180058 Reference page. 
• Biju, S.D., Garg, S., Gokulakrishnan, G., Sivaperuman, C., Thammachoti, P., Ren, J-L., Gopika, C., Bisht, K., Hamidy, A. & Shouche, Y.S. 2020. New insights on the systematics and reproductive behaviour in tree frogs of the genus Feihyla, with description of a new related genus from Asia (Anura, Rhacophoridae). Zootaxa 4878(1): 1–55. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4878.1.1 ; ResearchGate Reference page. 

Links

• Frost, D.R. 2021. Rhacophorinae. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1 (12 May 2021). Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001

Vernacular names

English: Oar-legged Tree Frogs
日本語: アオガエル亜科

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