Rhacophoridae

Rhacophoridae is a family of frog species.  They live in tropical regions of Asia and Africa. They are commonly known as shrub frogs.  Sometimes they are called "'moss frogs" or "bush frogs." Some Rhacophoridae are called "tree frogs." Among the most spectacular members of this family are numerous "flying frogs."

Most of the species are arboreal. This may include reproducing in trees. Mating frogs, while in amplexus, hold onto a branch, and beat their legs to form a foam. The eggs are laid in the foam.  They are then covered with seminal fluid. Then the foam hardens into a protective casing. In some species, this is done in a large group. The foam is laid above a water source, so the tadpoles fall into the water once they hatch.

The species in this family vary in size, from  to . Like other arboreal frogs, they have toe discs. This family has the Old World flying frogs, including Wallace's flying frogs (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus). These frogs have extensive webbing between their hands and feet.  This lets them glide through the air.
 Genera 

 Subfamily Buergeriinae Channing, 1989
 Buergeria Tschudi, 1838
 Subfamily Rhacophorinae Hoffman, 1932 (1858)
 Beddomixalus Abraham, Pyron, Ansil, Zachariah, and Zachariah, 2013 
 Chirixalus Boulenger, 1893
 Chiromantis Peters, 1854 
 Feihyla Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006 
 Ghatixalus Biju, Roelants, and Bossuyt, 2008 
 Gracixalus  Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2005 
 Kurixalus Ye, Fei, and Dubois, 1999
 Leptomantis Peters, 1867 
 Liuixalus
 Mercurana Abraham et al., 2013 
 Nasutixalus Jiang, Yan, Wang, and Che, 2016
 Nyctixalus Boulenger, 1882 Orixalus Philautus Gistel, 1848
 Polypedates Tschudi, 1838 
 Pseudophilautus Laurent, 1943 
 Raorchestes Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta, and Bossuyt, 2010 
 Rhacophorus Kuhl and Van Hasselt, 1822 
 Rohanixalus Biju, Garg, Gokulakrishnan, Chandrakasan, Thammachoti, Ren, Gopika, Bisht, Hamidy, and Shouche, 2020
 Romerus Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021 
 Taruga Meegaskumbura, Meegaskumbura, Bowatte, Manamendra-Arachchi, Pethiyagoda, Hanken, and Schneider, 2010 
 Theloderma Tschudi, 1838 
 Vampyrius Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021 
 Zhangixalus'' Li, Jiang, Ren, and Jiang, 2019

 Phylogeny 
This group of frogs is related to other frogs: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 50 (2009) 571–579. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.11.023

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Category:Frogs of Asia
Category:Frogs of Africa