Rhacophorinae Explained
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[1] (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).[2]
Notes and References
- 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 . 10.11646/zootaxa.3640.2.3 . 26000411.
- Yu. Guohua. Rao. Dingqi. Zhang. Mingwang. Yang. Junxing . Re-examination of the phylogeny of Rhacophoridae (Anura) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 2009 . 50 . 3 . 571–579 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.11.023. 2009MolPE..50..571Y .