Feihyla palpebralis (Smith, 1924)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Feihyla > Species: Feihyla palpebralis

Philautus palpebralis Smith, 1924, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1924: 233. Holotype: BMNH (formerly M. Smith 2589, by original designation), this now 1947.2.8.14 (formerly 1924.1.31.2) according to museum records. Type locality: "Langbian Peaks, alt. 2000 m., S. Annam", Vietnam.

Rhacophorus (Chirixalus) palpebralis — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 56, 105.

Chirixalus palpebralis — Bourret, 1939, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1939: 60; Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 92: 23; Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 44.

Philautus palpebralis — Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 274; Inger, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 531; Tian, Jiang, Wu, Hu, Zhao, and Huang, 1986, Handb. Chinese Amph. Rept.: 65; Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 176; Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 154.

Feihyla palpebralis — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 246; Biju, Garg, Gokulakrishnan, Sivaperuman, Thammachoti, Ren, Gopika, Bisht, Hamidy, and Shouche, 2020, Zootaxa, 4878: 24.

Chiromantis palpebralis — Grosjean, Delorme, Dubois, and Ohler, 2008, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 46: 174.

Aquixalus palpebralis — Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 699. See comment under Philautus.

Common Names

Vietnamese Bubble-nest Frog (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 33).

Vietnamese Bubble-nest Frog (Biju, Garg, Gokulakrishnan, Sivaperuman, Thammachoti, Ren, Gopika, Bisht, Hamidy, and Shouche, 2020, Zootaxa, 4878: 24). 

Annamite Jelly-nest Treefrog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 54). 

白颊费树蛙 (Chinese: Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: App. 1: 12). 

Distribution

Langbian Plateau of southern Vietnam. See comment regarding earlier Chinese records and need for genetic confirmation of range.  

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Vietnam

Likely/Controversially Present: China, People's Republic of, Laos

Endemic: Vietnam

Comment

See account by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 474–475, and Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 275–277 (as Philautus palpebralis). Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 193–195 (now assigned to other species), and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 256–257, provided accounts (as Philautus palpebralis). See comments by Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 92: 23–24. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 104–105, provided a brief account (as Philautus palpebralis) for Yunnan, China (now assigned to other species). See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Chirixalus palpebralis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 634. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 699–703, provided an account (as Aquixalus palpebralis) for China and spot map, although this taxonomy is now out of date. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 437, provided a brief account (as Aquixalus palpebralis) including photographs of specimens (although these specimens are now assigned to other species). See comments by Biju, Garg, Gokulakrishnan, Sivaperuman, Thammachoti, Ren, Gopika, Bisht, Hamidy, and Shouche, 2020, Zootaxa, 4878: 24, suggested that records from China (Yunnan [Hekou and Pingbian counties] and extreme western Guizhou) are based on misidentified Feihyla fuhuai, or other species unnamed at that time. Vassilieva, 2023, Zootaxa, 5351: 293–300, reported on larval chondrocranial and external morphology as well as their natural history. Liu, Bu, Feng, Zhang, Yang, Ma, Chen, Chen, He, Zhong, and Rao, 2026, Ecol. Montenegrina, 94: 229–242, further commented on the systematics of Chinese frogs previously thought to Feihyla palpebralis, now reassigned to Feihyla fuhua, Feihyla wenshanensis and Feihyla zhaotongensis. Pretty clearly dense genetic confirmation is needed to provide a distribution map of some confidence (DRF). 

  

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