Dryophytes immaculatus explained

Dryophytes immaculatus, the Chinese immaculate treefrog, is a species of frog in the family Hylidae endemic to China. The natural habitat of the species has been generally transformed into rice fields and it is threatened by habitat loss.

The species has very strongly declined in population size of the last decades, similarly to the sister species Dryophytes suweonensis and Dryophytes flaviventris.^[1]

Further reading

• Dufresnes . C. . Litvinchuk . S. . Borzée . A. . Jang . Y. . Li . J-T. . Miura . I. . Perrin . N. . Stöck . M. . 2016 . Phylogeography reveals an ancient cryptic radiation in East-Asian tree frogs (Hyla japonica group) and complex relationships between continental and island lineages . BMC Evolutionary Biology . 16 . 1 . 253 . 10.1186/s12862-016-0814-x . 27884104 . 5121986 . free .

Notes and References

1. Borzée . A . Messenger . K . Chae . S . Andersen . D . Groffen . J . Kim . Y . An . J . Othman . S . Ri . K . Nam . T . Bae . Y . Ren . J . Li . J . Chuang . M . Yi . Y . Shin . Y . Kwon . S . Jang . Y . Min . N . Yellow sea mediated segregation between North East Asian Dryophytes species . PLOS ONE . 2020 . 15 . 6 . e0234299 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0234299 . 32579561 . 7314424 . 2020PLoSO..1534299B . free .