Polypedates

***Polypedates*** is a genus of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae, subfamily Rhacophorinae. People call them **whipping frogs** in English. They live in eastern and southern Asia.

Scientists have disagreed about whether these frogs should be called _Polypedates_ or _Rhacophorus_. molecular phylogenetic studies show that they are two different groups of frogs and not the same group. _Polypedates_ and  _Taruga_ are considered to be the sister taxon of _Feihyla_ and _Rhacophorus_.

## Species

These species are in the genus _Polypedates_, and scientists find more often:

- _Polypedates assamensis_ <small>Mathew & Sen, 2009</small>
- _Polypedates bengalensis_ <small>Purkayastha et al., 2019</small>
- _Polypedates braueri_ <small>(Vogt, 1911)</small> – White-lipped treefrog or Java treefrog
- _Polypedates colletti_ <small>(Boulenger, 1890)</small> – Collett's whipping frog, black-spotted tree frog, or Collett's tree frog
- _Polypedates cruciger_ <small>Blyth, 1852</small> – Sri Lanka whipping frog or common hour-glass tree-frog
- _Polypedates discantus_ <small>Rujirawan, Stuart, and Aowphol, 2013</small> – Malayan slender treefrog
- _Polypedates hecticus_ <small>Peters, 1863</small> – Samara flying frog
- _Polypedates himalayensis_ <small>(Annandale, 1912)</small> – Himalayan tree frog
- _Polypedates impresus_ <small>Yang, 2008</small>
- _Polypedates insularis_ <small>Das, 2005</small> – Nicobarese tree frog
- _Polypedates iskandari_ <small>Riyanto, Mumpuni & McGuire, 2011</small>
- _Polypedates leucomystax_ <small>(Gravenhorst, 1829)</small> – common tree frog, four-lined tree frog, striped tree frog, "white-lipped tree frog" (formerly often in _P. maculatus_)
- _Polypedates macrotis_ <small>(Boulenger, 1891)</small> – Bongao tree frog
- _Polypedates maculatus_ <small>(Gray, 1830)</small> – common Indian tree frog, Chunam tree frog
- _Polypedates megacephalus_ <small>Hallowell, 1861</small> – spot-legged tree frog, Hong Kong whipping frog, "brown tree frog"
- _Polypedates mutus_ <small>(Smith, 1940)</small> – northern treefrog
- _Polypedates occidentalis_ <small>Das and Dutta, 2006</small> – western tree frog
- _Polypedates otilophus_ <small>(Boulenger, 1893)</small> – file-eared tree frog, Borneo eared frog
- _Polypedates pseudocruciger_ <small>Das and Ravichandran, 1998</small> – false hour-glass tree frog or yellow tree frog
- _Polypedates pseudotilophus_ <small>Matsui, Hamidy, and Kuraishi, 2014</small>
- _Polypedates ranwellai_ <small>Wickramasingha, Munindradasa, and Fernando, 2012</small> – Ranwella's spined tree frog
- _Polypedates subansiriensis_ <small>Mathew & Sen, 2009</small> – Subansiri's tree frog
- _Polypedates taeniatus_ <small>(Boulenger, 1906)</small> – Bengal whipping Frog, Bengal whipping tree frog, or Terai tree frog
- _Polypedates teraiensis_ <small>(Dubois, 1987)</small> – common tree frog, six-lined tree frog, Terai tree frog, or Perching frog
- _Polypedates zed_ <small>(Dubois, 1987)</small> – Nepalese tree frog or Narayanghat whipping frog

The recently described _Polypedates bijui_ has now been renamed as _Beddomixalus bijui_, the only species in its genus.

## Phylogeny

Pyron & Wiens (2011) say that the frogs are related to each other this way. 8 species are included. _Polypedates_ is a sister group of _Feihyla_. Together, _Polypedates_ and _Feihyla_ form a sister group to _Rhacophorus_.

Another group of scientists, Kuraishi, et al. (2013), say the frogs are related to each other this way. _Polypedates_ and _Rhacophorus_ are estimated to have split off from their most recent common ancestor 26.6 million years ago during the Oligocene.