Kurixalus Explained

Kurixalus is a genus of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae. The taxonomy of small rhacophids is difficult and has been subject to many revisions, but molecular genetic data do support monophyly of Kurixalus. These frogs are distributed from Himalayan front ranges of eastern India southward and eastward to Cambodia, Vietnam, southern China, Taiwan, and the Ryukyu Islands.^[1]

Species

, the following 19 species are recognized:^[2]

Kurixalus absconditus Mediyansyah, Hamidy, Munir, and Matsui, 2019 – Piasak-frilled swamp treefrog
Kurixalus appendiculatus (Günther, 1858) – frilled tree frog, rough-armed tree frog, or Southeast Asian tree frog
Kurixalus baliogaster (Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999) – belly-spotted frog
Kurixalus banaensis (Bourret, 1939) – Bana bubble-nest frog
Kurixalus berylliniris Wu, Huang, Tsai, Li, Jhang, and Wu, 2016
Kurixalus bisacculus (Taylor, 1962) − Taylor's treefrog
Kurixalus chaseni (Smith, 1924)
Kurixalus eiffingeri (Boettger, 1895)
Kurixalus gracilloides Nguyen, Duong, Luu, and Poyarkov, 2020
Kurixalus hainanus (Zhao, Wang, and Shi, 2005)
Kurixalus idiootocus (Kuramoto and Wang, 1987) – temple tree frog
Kurixalus lenquanensis Yu, Wang, Hou, Rao, and Yang, 2017
Kurixalus motokawai Nguyen, Matsui, and Eto, 2014
Kurixalus naso (Annandale, 1912) – uphill tree frog, long-snouted treefrog, Annandale's high altitude frog
Kurixalus odontotarsus (Ye and Fei, 1993) – serrate-legged small treefrog
Kurixalus verrucosus (Boulenger, 1893) – small rough-armed tree frog
Kurixalus viridescens Nguyen, Matsui, and Duc, 2014
Kurixalus wangi Wu, Huang, Tsai, Li, Jhang, and Wu, 2016
Kurixalus yangi Yu, Hui, Rao, and Yang, 2018

Notes and References

Web site: Kurixalus Ye, Fei, and Dubois, 1999 . Frost, Darrel R. . 2013 . Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference . American Museum of Natural History . 10 September 2013.
Web site: Kurixalus Ye, Fei, and Dubois, 1999 Amphibian Species of the World. amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org. en. 2020-05-15.