Theloderma

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
Genus: Theloderma
Species (28): T. albopunctatum – T. annae – T. asperum – T. auratum – T. baibungense – T. bicolor – T. corticale – T. gordoni – T. hekouense – T. horridum – T. khoii – T. lacustrinum – T. laeve – T. lateriticum – T. leporosum – T. licin – T. moloch – T. nagalandense – T. nebulosum – T. palliatum – T. petilum – T. phrynoderma – T. pyaukkya – T. rhododiscus – T. ryabovi – T. stellatum – T. truongsonense – T. vietnamense

Name

Theloderma Tschudi, 1838: 32, 75

Type species: Hyla leporosa Schlegel, 1844, by monotypy.

Synonyms

Phrynoderma Boulenger, 1893: 341 [synonymised by Taylor (1962: 519)]
- Type species: Phrynoderma asperum Boulenger, 1893, by monotypy.

Stelladerma Poyarkov, Orlov, Moiseeva, Pawangkhanant, Ruangsuwan, Vassilieva, Galoyan, Nguyen & Gogoleva, 2015: 256 [as a subgenus]
- Type species: Theloderma stellatum Taylor, 1962, by original designation.

References

Primary references

Tschudi, J.J. von 1838. Classification der Batrachier mit Berücksichtigung der fossilen Thiere dieser Abtheilung der Reptilien. Petitpierre: Neuchâtel. BHL

Additional references

Orlov, N.L. & Ho, T.C. 2005. A new species of Philautus from Vietnam (Anura: Rhacophoridae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 12(2): 135–142. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2005-12-2-135-142 [nonfunctional] ; Abstract Reference page.
McLeod, D.S. & Ahmad, N. 2007. A new species of Theloderma (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from southern Thailand and peninsular Malaysia. Russian Journal of Herpetology 14(1): 65–72. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2007-14-1-65-72 [nonfunctional] ; Abstract Reference page.
Bain, R.H., Nguyen, T.Q. & Doan, K.V. 2009. A new species of the genus Theloderma Tschudi, 1838 (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from northwestern Vietnam. Zootaxa 2191(1): 58–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2191.1.3 Reference page.
Rowley, J.J.L., Le, D.T.T., Hoang, H.D., Dau, V.Q. & Cao, T.T. 2011. Two new species of Theloderma (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Vietnam. Zootaxa 3098(1): 1–20. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3098.1.1 Reference page.
Orlov, N.L., Poyarkov Jr., N.A., Moiseeva, A.V., Ananjeva, N.B., Nguyen, T.T., Nguyen, N.S. & Geissler, P. 2012. Taxonomic notes on rhacophorid frogs (Rhacophorinae: Rhacophoridae: Anura) of southern part of Annamite Mountains (Truong Son, Vietnam), with description of three new species. Russian Journal of Herpetology 19(1): 23–64. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2012-19-1-23–64 [nonfunctional] ; Abstract Reference page.
Nguyen, T.T., Matsui, M. & Eto, K. 2015. Mitochondrial phylogeny of an Asian tree frog genus Theloderma (Anura: Rhacophoridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 85: 59–67. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.02.003 Reference page.
Poyarkov Jr., N.A., Orlov, N.L., Moiseeva, A.V., Pawangkhanant, P., Ruangsuwan, T., Vassilieva, A.B., Galoyan, E.A., Nguyen, T.T. & Gogoleva, S.S. 2015. Sorting out Moss Frogs: mtDNA Data on Taxonomic Diversity and Phylogenetic Relationships of the Indochinese Species of the Genus Theloderma (Anura, Rhacophoridae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 22(4): 241–280. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2015-22-4-241-280 [nonfunctional] ; Abstract Reference page.
Nguyen, T.Q., Pham, C.T., Nguyen, T.T., Ngo, H.N. & Ziegler, T. 2016. A new species of Theloderma (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Vietnam. Zootaxa 4168(1): 171–186. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4168.1.10 Reference page.
Sivongxay, N., Davankham, M., Phimmachak, S., Phoumixay, K. & Stuart, B.L. 2016. A new small-sized Theloderma (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Laos. Zootaxa 4147(4): 433–442. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4147.4.5 Reference page.
Dever, J.A. 2017. A new cryptic species of the Theloderma asperum complex (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Myanmar. Journal of Herpetology 51(3): 425–436. DOI: 10.1670/17-026 Reference page.
Chan, K.O., Grismer, L.L. & Brown, R.M. 2018. Comprehensive multi-locus phylogeny of Old World tree frogs (Anura: Rhacophoridae) reveals taxonomic uncertainties and potential cases of over- and underestimation of species diversity. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 127: 1010–1019. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.07.005 Reference page.
Poyarkov Jr., N.A., Kropachev, I.I., Gogoleva, S.S. & Orlov, N.L. 2018. A new species of the genus Theloderma Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Tay Nguyen Plateau, central Vietnam. Zoological Research 39(3): 158–184. DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2018.018 Reference page.
Du, L.-Y., Wang, J., Liu, S. & Yu, G.-H. 2022. A new cryptic species in the Theloderma rhododiscus complex (Anura, Rhacophoridae) from China–Vietnam border regions. ZooKeys 1099: 123–138. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1099.80390 Reference page.
Ninh, H.T., Nguyen, T.T., Nguyen, H.Q., Hoang, N.V., Siliyavong, S., Nguyen, T.V., Le, D.T., Le, Q.K. & Ziegler, T. 2022. A new species of mossy frog (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Northeastern Vietnam. European Journal of Taxonomy 794: 72–90. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.794.1655 Reference page.

Links

Frost, D.R. 2021. Theloderma. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1 (9 May 2022). 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: Bug-eyed Frogs

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