Rhacophorini

African foam-nest tree frog Chiromantis rufescens, copyright Ryan van Huyssteen.

Belongs within: Rhacophoridae.
Contains: Rhacophorus.

The Rhacophorini are an Old World tropical clade of tree frogs.

<==RhacophoriniFG06
|--Chiromantis Peters 1854LL13, FG06 [incl. Chirixalus Boulenger 1893FG06]
| | i. s.: C. cherrapunjiae (Roonwal & Kripalani 1966) [=Chirixalus cherrapunjiae]FG06
| | C. dudhwaensis (Ray 1992) [=Chirixalus dudhwaensis]FG06
| | C. hansenae (Cochran 1927) [=Chirixalus hansenae]FG06
| | C. laevis (Smith 1924) [=Chirixalus laevis]FG06
| | C. punctatus (Wilkinson, Win et al. 2003) [=Chirixalus punctatus]FG06
| | C. shyamrupus (Chanda & Ghosh 1989) [=Chirixalus shyamrupus]FG06
| | C. simus (Annandale 1915) [=Chirixalus simus]FG06
| |--C. vittatus (Boulenger 1887) [=Chirixalus vittatus]FG06
| `--+--+--C. doriae (Boulenger 1893) [=*Chirixalus doriae]FG06
| | `--C. nongkhorensis (Cochran 1927)LL13, FG06 [=Chirixalus nongkhorensisFG06]
| `--+--C. rufescensLL13
| `--+--*C. xerampelinaFG06
| `--C. petersiLL13
`--+--RhacophorusLL13
`--+--Feihyla Frost, Grant et al. 2006LL13, FG06
| |--F. kajauLL13
| `--+--*F. palpebralis (Smith 1924)FG06, LL13, FG06 [=Philautus palpebralisFG06, Chirixalus palpebralisFG06]
| `--F. vittatusLL13
`--+--GhatixalusLL13
| |--G. asteropsLL13
| `--G. variabilisLL13
`--+--TarugaLL13
| |--T. equesLL13
| |--T. fastigoLL13
| `--T. longinasusLL13
`--Polypedates Tschudi 1838LL13, FG06 [Polypedatidae]
| i. s.: P. pleurostictusFG06
|--P. equesPW11
|--P. fastigoPW11
|--P. otilophusLL13
`--+--+--P. collettiLL13
| `--P. pseudocrucigerLL13
`--+--+--P. crucigerLL13
| `--P. maculatusLL13
`--+--P. macrotisLL13
`--+--*P. leucomystaxFG06, LL13
`--+--P. megacephalus Hallowell 1860PW11, L50 [=Rhacophorus leucomystax megacephalusL50]
`--P. mutusPW11

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[FG06] Frost, D. R., T. Grant, J. Faivovich, R. H. Bain, A. Haas, C. F. B. Haddad, R. O. de Sá, A. Channing, M. Wilkinson, S. C. Donnellan, C. J. Raxworthy, J. A. Campbell, B. L. Blotto, P. Moler, R. C. Drewes, R. A. Nussbaum, J. D. Lynch, D. M. Green & W. C. Wheeler. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–370.

[LL13] Li, J.-T., Y. Li, S. Klaus, D.-Q. Rao, D. M. Hillis & Y.-P. Zhang. 2013. Diversification of rhacophorid frogs provides evidence for accelerated faunal exchange between India and Eurasia during the Oligocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 110 (9): 3441–3446.

[L50] Liu, C.-C. 1950. Amphibians of western China. Fieldiana: Zoology Memoirs 2: 1–400.

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