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 Mathew & Sen, 2009
 Polypedates bengalensis Purkayastha et al., 2019
 Polypedates braueri (Vogt, 1911) – White-lipped treefrog or Java treefrog 
 Polypedates colletti (Boulenger, 1890) – Collett's whipping frog, black-spotted tree frog, or Collett's tree frog 
 Polypedates cruciger Blyth, 1852 – Sri Lanka whipping frog or common hour-glass tree-frog
 Polypedates discantus Rujirawan, Stuart, and Aowphol, 2013 – Malayan slender treefrog
 Polypedates hecticus Peters, 1863 – Samara flying frog
 Polypedates himalayensis (Annandale, 1912) – Himalayan tree frog
 Polypedates impresus Yang, 2008
 Polypedates insularis Das, 2005 – Nicobarese tree frog
 Polypedates iskandari Riyanto, Mumpuni & McGuire, 2011
 Polypedates leucomystax (Gravenhorst, 1829) – common tree frog, four-lined tree frog, striped tree frog, "white-lipped tree frog" (formerly often in P. maculatus)
 Polypedates macrotis (Boulenger, 1891) – Bongao tree frog
 Polypedates maculatus (Gray, 1830) – common Indian tree frog, Chunam tree frog
 Polypedates megacephalus Hallowell, 1861 – spot-legged tree frog, Hong Kong whipping frog, "brown tree frog"
 Polypedates mutus (Smith, 1940) – northern treefrog
 Polypedates occidentalis Das and Dutta, 2006 – western tree frog
 Polypedates otilophus (Boulenger, 1893) – file-eared tree frog, Borneo eared frog
 Polypedates pseudocruciger Das and Ravichandran, 1998 – false hour-glass tree frog or yellow tree frog 
 Polypedates pseudotilophus Matsui, Hamidy, and Kuraishi, 2014
 Polypedates ranwellai Wickramasingha, Munindradasa, and Fernando, 2012 – Ranwella's spined tree frog
 Polypedates subansiriensis Mathew & Sen, 2009 – Subansiri's tree frog
 Polypedates taeniatus (Boulenger, 1906) – Bengal whipping Frog, Bengal whipping tree frog, or Terai tree frog
 Polypedates teraiensis (Dubois, 1987) – common tree frog, six-lined tree frog, Terai tree frog, or Perching frog 
 Polypedates zed (Dubois, 1987) – Nepalese tree frog or Narayanghat whipping frog

The recently described Polypedates bijuiZachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju, Radhakrishnan, Palot & Kalesh, 2011 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.KURAISHI, N., MATSUI, M., HAMIDY, A., BELABUT, D. M., AHMAD, N., PANHA, S., SUDIN, A., YONG, H. S., JIANG, J.-P., OTA, H., THONG, H. T. and NISHIKAWA, K. (2013), Phylogenetic and taxonomic relationships of the Polypedates leucomystax complex (Amphibia). Zoologica Scripta, 42: 54–70. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00562.x Polypedates and Rhacophorus are estimated to have split off from their most recent common ancestor 26.6 million years ago during the Oligocene. 

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