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.
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 Muller, 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 Kohler, 2001
Rhacophorus pardalis Gunther, 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
External links
Amphibian and Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia - Family Rhacophoridae
Frogs of Asia