Rhacophorus

***Rhacophorus*** is a group of frogs. They are in the shrub frog family (Rhacophoridae). They live in India, Japan, China, and Southeast Asia. Scientists say this group has more than 40 species in it.

These frogs have long toes with webbed skin. They use this skin to slow down when they fall or jump out of trees. This is called parachuting. People call them "flying frogs" because of this.

These frogs are related to _Polypedates_. Scientists used to call them the same genus. Even today, some scientists think _"P." feae_ and the Chinese flying frog (_"R." dennysi_) might be in the wrong group.

## Reproduction

These frogs lay their eggs in foam nests in trees. They make the nests on branches hanging over water. Once the eggs hatch, the tadpoles fall into the water.Some species like Rhacophorus kio will wrap this and cover this foam nest with leaves.

## Species

These species are in the genus _Rhacophorus_:

- _Rhacophorus annamensis_ <small>Smith, 1924</small> – Annam flying frog
- _Rhacophorus baluensis_ <small>Inger, 1954</small>
- _Rhacophorus barisani_ <small>Harvey, Pemberton, and Smith, 2002</small>
- _Rhacophorus bengkuluensis_ <small>Streicher, Hamidy, Harvey, Anders, Shaney, Kurniawan, and Smith, 2014</small>
- _Rhacophorus bifasciatus_ <small>Van Kampen, 1923</small>
- _Rhacophorus bipunctatus_ <small>Ahl, 1927</small> (including _R. htunwini_)
- _Rhacophorus borneensis_ <small> Matsui, Shimada, and Sudin, 2013</small>
- _Rhacophorus calcadensis_ <small>Ahl, 1927</small> – Kalakad gliding frog
- _Rhacophorus calcaneus_ <small>Smith, 1924</small>
- _Rhacophorus catamitus_ <small>Harvey, Pemberton, and Smith, 2002</small>
- _Rhacophorus edentulus_ <small>Müller, 1894</small>
- _Rhacophorus exechopygus_ <small>Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999</small>
- _Rhacophorus georgii_ <small>Roux, 1904</small>
- _Rhacophorus helenae_ <small>Rowley, Tran, Hoang & Le, 2012</small> – Helen's tree frog
- _Rhacophorus hoabinhensis_ <small>Nguyen, Pham, Nguyen, Ninh, and Ziegler, 2017</small>
- _Rhacophorus hoanglienensis_ <small>Orlov, Lathrop, Murphy, and Ho, 2001</small>
- _Rhacophorus indonesiensis_ <small>Hamidy & Kurniati, 2015</small>
- _Rhacophorus kio_ <small>Ohler & Delorme, 2005</small> – black-webbed treefrog
- _Rhacophorus laoshan_ <small>Mo, Jiang, Xie, and Ohler, 2008</small>
- _Rhacophorus larissae_ <small>Ostroshabov, Orlov, and Nguyen, 2013</small>
- _Rhacophorus lateralis_ <small>Boulenger, 1883</small>
- _Rhacophorus malabaricus_ <small>Jerdon, 1870</small> – Malabar gliding frog
- _Rhacophorus margaritifer_ <small>(Schlegel, 1837)</small>
- _Rhacophorus marmoridorsum_ <small>Orlov, 2008</small>
- _Rhacophorus modestus_ <small>Boulenger, 1920</small>
- _Rhacophorus monticola_ <small>Boulenger, 1896</small>
- _Rhacophorus nigropalmatus_ <small>Boulenger, 1895</small> – Wallace's flying frog
- _Rhacophorus norhayatii_ <small>Chan and Grismer, 2010</small>
- _Rhacophorus orlovi_ <small>Ziegler and Köhler, 2001</small>
- _Rhacophorus pardalis_ <small>Günther, 1858</small> – harlequin tree frog
- _Rhacophorus poecilonotus_ <small>Boulenger, 1920</small>
- _Rhacophorus pseudomalabaricus_ <small>Vasudevan and Dutta, 2000</small>
- _Rhacophorus reinwardtii_ <small>(Schlegel, 1840)</small> – black-webbed tree frog, green flying frog, Reinwardt's tree frog
- _Rhacophorus rhodopus_ <small>Liu and Hu, 1960</small> (including _R. namdaphaensis_, often included in _R. bipunctatus_)
- _Rhacophorus robertingeri_ <small>Orlov, Poyarkov, Vassilieva, Ananjeva, Nguyen, Sang, and Geissler, 2012</small>
- _Rhacophorus spelaeus_ <small>Orlov, Gnophanxay, Phimminith, and Phomphoumy, 2010</small>
- _Rhacophorus subansiriensis_ <small>Mathew and Sen, 2009</small>
- _Rhacophorus translineatus_ <small>Wu, 1977</small>
- _Rhacophorus tuberculatus_ <small>(Anderson, 1871)</small>
- _Rhacophorus turpes_ <small>Smith, 1940</small>
- _Rhacophorus vampyrus_ <small>Rowley, Le, Thi, Stuart, and Hoang, 2010</small> – vampire tree frog
- _Rhacophorus vanbanicus_ <small>Kropachev, Orlov, Ninh, and Nguyen, 2019</small>
- _Rhacophorus verrucopus_ <small>Huang, 1983</small>
- _Rhacophorus viridimaculatus_ <small>Ostroshabov, Orlov, and Nguyen, 2013</small>

## Family tree

The following is a partial family tree of _Rhacophorus_ from Pyron & Wiens (2011). Only nine species are included. _Rhacophorus_ is a sister group of _Polypedates_.

## Other websites

- Amphibian and Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia - Family Rhacophoridae)