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.
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## 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* Smith, 1924 – Annam flying frog
* *Rhacophorus baluensis* Inger, 1954
* *Rhacophorus barisani* Harvey, Pemberton, and Smith, 2002
* *Rhacophorus bengkuluensis* Streicher, Hamidy, Harvey, Anders, Shaney, Kurniawan, and Smith, 2014
* *Rhacophorus bifasciatus* Van Kampen, 1923
* *Rhacophorus bipunctatus* Ahl, 1927 (including *R. htunwini*)
* *Rhacophorus borneensis*  Matsui, Shimada, and Sudin, 2013
* *Rhacophorus calcadensis* Ahl, 1927 – Kalakad gliding frog
* *Rhacophorus calcaneus* Smith, 1924
* *Rhacophorus catamitus* Harvey, Pemberton, and Smith, 2002
* *Rhacophorus edentulus* Müller, 1894
* *Rhacophorus exechopygus* Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999
* *Rhacophorus georgii* Roux, 1904
* *Rhacophorus helenae'' Rowley, Tran, Hoang & Le, 2012 – Helen's tree frog
* *Rhacophorus hoabinhensis* Nguyen, Pham, Nguyen, Ninh, and Ziegler, 2017
* *Rhacophorus hoanglienensis* Orlov, Lathrop, Murphy, and Ho, 2001
* *Rhacophorus indonesiensis* Hamidy & Kurniati, 2015
* *Rhacophorus kio* Ohler & Delorme, 2005 – black-webbed treefrog
* *Rhacophorus laoshan* Mo, Jiang, Xie, and Ohler, 2008
* *Rhacophorus larissae* Ostroshabov, Orlov, and Nguyen, 2013
* *Rhacophorus lateralis* Boulenger, 1883
* *Rhacophorus malabaricus* Jerdon, 1870 – Malabar gliding frog
* *Rhacophorus margaritifer* (Schlegel, 1837)
* *Rhacophorus marmoridorsum* Orlov, 2008
* *Rhacophorus modestus* Boulenger, 1920
* *Rhacophorus monticola* Boulenger, 1896
* *Rhacophorus nigropalmatus* Boulenger, 1895 – Wallace's flying frog
* *Rhacophorus norhayatii* Chan and Grismer, 2010
* *Rhacophorus orlovi* Ziegler and Köhler, 2001
* *Rhacophorus pardalis* Günther, 1858 – harlequin tree frog
* *Rhacophorus poecilonotus* Boulenger, 1920
* *Rhacophorus pseudomalabaricus* Vasudevan and Dutta, 2000
* *Rhacophorus reinwardtii* (Schlegel, 1840) – black-webbed tree frog, green flying frog, Reinwardt's tree frog
* *Rhacophorus rhodopus* Liu and Hu, 1960 (including *R. namdaphaensis*, often included in *R. bipunctatus*)
* *Rhacophorus robertingeri* Orlov, Poyarkov, Vassilieva, Ananjeva, Nguyen, Sang, and Geissler, 2012
* *Rhacophorus spelaeus* Orlov, Gnophanxay, Phimminith, and Phomphoumy, 2010
* *Rhacophorus subansiriensis* Mathew and Sen, 2009
* *Rhacophorus translineatus* Wu, 1977
* *Rhacophorus tuberculatus* (Anderson, 1871)
* *Rhacophorus turpes* Smith, 1940
* *Rhacophorus vampyrus* Rowley, Le, Thi, Stuart, and Hoang, 2010 – vampire tree frog
* *Rhacophorus vanbanicus* Kropachev, Orlov, Ninh, and Nguyen, 2019
* *Rhacophorus verrucopus* Huang, 1983
* *Rhacophorus viridimaculatus* Ostroshabov, Orlov, and Nguyen, 2013

## 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*.

## References
## Other websites
*[Amphibian and Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia - Family Rhacophoridae](http://www.amphibia.my/page.php?pageid=Browse%20Species%20Guide&family=Rhacophoridae%20(Afro-asian%20Tree%20Frogs))