Rhacophorinae

The Rhacophorinae are a subfamily of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae. They range from tropical Africa and Asia to temperate China and Japan.[1]

Rhacophorinae
Common tree frog (Polypedates leucomystax)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Rhacophoridae
Subfamily:	Rhacophorinae Hoffman, 1932
Genera
See text.

Genera

The following genera are recognised in the subfamily Rhacophorinae, representing 422 species:[1]

• Beddomixalus Abraham, Pyron, Ansil, Zachariah, and Zachariah, 2013 (monotypic)
• Chirixalus Boulenger, 1893 (14 species)
• Chiromantis Peters, 1854 (4 species)
• Feihyla Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006 (six species)
• Ghatixalus Biju, Roelants, and Bossuyt, 2008 (three species)
• Gracixalus Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2005 (17 species)
• Kurixalus Ye, Fei, and Dubois, 1999 (19 species)
• Leptomantis Peters, 1867 (13 species)
• Liuixalus Li, Che, Bain, Zhao, and Zhang, 2008 (six species)
• Mercurana Abraham et al., 2013[2] (monotypic)
• Nasutixalus Jiang, Yan, Wang, and Che, 2016 (three species)
• Nyctixalus Boulenger, 1882 (three species)
• Philautus Gistel, 1848 (53 species)
• Polypedates Tschudi, 1838 (25 species)
• Pseudophilautus Laurent, 1943 (80 species)
• Raorchestes Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta, and Bossuyt, 2010 (65 species)
• Rhacophorus Kuhl and Van Hasselt, 1822 (44 species)
• Taruga Meegaskumbura, Meegaskumbura, Bowatte, Manamendra-Arachchi, Pethiyagoda, Hanken, and Schneider, 2010 (three species)
• Theloderma Tschudi, 1838 (26 species)
• Zhangixalus Li, Jiang, Ren, and Jiang, 2019 (37 species)

Phylogeny

The following phylogeny of Rhacophorinae is from Yu et al. (2008).[3]

Rhacophorinae	Liuixalus         Nyctixalus     Theloderma         Philautus, Kurixalus       Gracixalus       Chiromantis         Feihyla     Polypedates       Rhacophorus

References

1. Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Rhacophorinae Hoffman, 1932 (1858)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
2. Robin Kurian Abraham; R. Alexander Pyron; Ansil B. R.; Arun Zachariah; Anil Zachariah (2013). "Two novel genera and one new species of treefrog (Anura: Rhacophoridae) highlight cryptic diversity in the Western Ghats of India". Zootaxa. 3640 (2): 177–189. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3640.2.3. PMID 26000411.
3. Yu, Guohua; Rao, Dingqi; Zhang, Mingwang; Yang, Junxing (2009). "Re-examination of the phylogeny of Rhacophoridae (Anura) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 50 (3): 571–579. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.11.023.