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Subfamily of amphibians

Rhacophorinae
Common tree frog (Polypedates leucomystax)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Rhacophoridae
Subfamily: Rhacophorinae
Hoffman, 1932
Genera

See text.

The Rhacophorinae are a subfamily of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae. 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 (monotypic)
  • Chirixalus Boulenger, 1893 (six species)
  • Chiromantis 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 Biju, Roelants, and Bossuyt, 2008 (three species)
  • Gracixalus 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 Jiang, Yan, Wang, and Che, 2016 (three species)
  • Nyctixalus Boulenger, 1882 (three species)
  • Philautus Gistel, 1848 (54 species)
  • Polypedates Tschudi, 1838 (25 species)
  • Pseudophilautus Laurent, 1943 (80 species)
  • Raorchestes Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta, and Bossuyt, 2010 (74 species)
  • Rhacophorus 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 Tschudi, 1838 (28 species)
  • Vampyrius Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021 (monotypic)
  • Zhangixalus Li, Jiang, Ren, and Jiang, 2019 (40 species)

Phylogeny

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

Rhacophorinae 

Liuixalus

Nyctixalus

Theloderma

Philautus, Kurixalus

Gracixalus

Chiromantis

Feihyla

Polypedates

Rhacophorus

References

  1. ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Rhacophorinae Hoffman, 1932 (1858)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  2. Robin Kurian Abraham; R. Alexander Pyron; Ansil B. R.; Arun Zachariah; Anil Zachariah (2013). "Two novel genera and one new species of treefrog (Anura: Rhacophoridae) highlight cryptic diversity in the Western Ghats of India". Zootaxa. 3640 (2): 177–189. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3640.2.3. PMID 26000411.
  3. Yu, Guohua; Rao, Dingqi; Zhang, Mingwang; Yang, Junxing (2009). "Re-examination of the phylogeny of Rhacophoridae (Anura) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 50 (3): 571–579. Bibcode:2009MolPE..50..571Y. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.11.023.
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