Leptomantis rufipes (Inger, 1966)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Leptomantis > Species: Leptomantis rufipes

Rhacophorus rufipes Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 333. Holotype: FMNH 147699, by original designation. Type locality: "five miles north of Labang, Fourth Division, Sarawak", Malaysia (Borneo).

Leptomantis rufipes — Jiang, Jiang, Ren, Wu, and Li, 2019, Asian Herpetol. Res., 10: 7. 

Rhacophorus (Leptomantis) rufipes — Mahony, Kamei, Brown, and Chan, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 253, by implication. 

English Names

Malaysian Flying Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 114).

Red-legged Tree Frog (Haas, Das, Hertwig, Bublies, and Schulz-Schaeffer, 2022, Guide to the Tadpoles of Borneo: 358).

Distribution

Isolated localities in south-central Sarawak and eastern Sabah, Malaysia (Borneo), Brunei, and central Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Malaysia, East (Sarawak and/or Sabah)

Comment

Not assigned to subgenus by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77. Most similar to Rhacophorus harrissoni and Rhacophorus fasciatus according to the original publication. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 635. Haas, Hertwig, Krings, Braskamp, Dehling, Min, Jankowski, Schweizer, and Das, 2012, Zootaxa, 3328: 1-19, reported on larval morphology. Haas, Das, Hertwig, Bublies, and Schulz-Schaeffer, 2022, Guide to the Tadpoles of Borneo: 358–360, summarized the knowledge of habitat, reproduction, larval morphology and coloration.

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