Rohanixalus

Rohanixalus is a genus of tree frogs in the family Rhacophoridae. They live in the Andaman islands and in Indo-Burma region. Indian amphibian scientist S.D. Biju of the University of Delhi and his colleagues made the genus in 2020. There are eight species in it.

Etymology
Scientists named the genus after Sri Lankan taxonomy sicentist Rohan Pethiyagoda. Pethiyagoda is a fish scientist. He has found and written papers about almost 100 new species from Sri Lanka.

Description
These frogs are small with slim bodies. They are about  long from nose to rear end. They have a pair of colored lines on either side of the body. Some have brown spots. Female frogs lay light greenish eggs in bubble-nests in trees. Female mothers take care of the eggs and helps the tadpoles reach the water.

Home
These frogs live in the Andaman islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and southern China.

Species
+ Species  Taxon author  Common name  Distribution  Ref. Rohanixalus baladika  (Riyanto and Kurniati, 2014)  Sumatran Bubble-nest Frog  North Sumatra and West Sumatra Provinces, Indonesia   Rohanixalus hansenae  (Cochran, 1927)  Hansen's Asian Treefrog  Thailand   Rohanixalus marginis  (Chan et al, 2011)  Malaysian Bubble-nest Frog  Perlis State Park, Malaysia   Rohanixalus nauli  (Riyanto and Kurniati, 2014)  Nauli Bubble-nest Frog  Teluk Nauli, Sibolga, Indonesia   Rohanixalus punctatus  (Wilkinson, Win, Thin, Lwin, Shein, and Tun, 2003)    Southwestern foothills of Rakhine Yoma, Myanmar   Rohanixalus senapatiensis  (Mathew and Sen, 2009)  Senapti's Bubble-nest Frog  northeastern India   Rohanixalus shyamrupus  (Chanda and Ghosh, 1989)  Hornbill Bubble-nest Frog  Arunachal Pradesh, India   Rohanixalus vittatus  (Boulenger, 1887)  Striped Bubble-nest frog  Myanmar, Thailand, and the Andaman Islands in India; records from elsewhere may be undescribed species  

References

Category:Frogs of Asia