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Zhangixalus Li, Jiang, Ren, and Jiang, 2019

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Zhangixalus

43 species

Zhangixalus Li, Jiang, Ren, and Jiang in Jiang, Jiang, Ren, Wu, and Li, 2019, Asian Herpetol. Res., 10: 7. Polypedates dugritei David, 1872, by original designation.

English Names

Zhang's Treefrogs (original publication).

Flying Frogs (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 15).

Distribution

Northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, southern China, Myanmar, northern Thailand, Laos, northern Vietnam, Taiwan, and Japan; south to Indonesia, Brunei, and Malaysia.

Comment

See comment under Rhacophorus for literature applicable to this taxon (partitioned from Rhacophorus in 2019). O'Connell, Hamidy, Kurniawan, Smith, and Fujita, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 123: 101–112, provided a tree of relationships (as Rhacophorus). Dufresnes, Ambu, Prasad, Borzée, and Litvinchuk, 2022, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 135: 40–51, reported on molecular phylogenetics and biogeography, with special attention to the evolution of nesting behavior. Yuan, Yang, and Jiang, 2022, Pakistan J. Zool., 54: 2417–2423, provided a tree based on four mtDNA genes of representative species. Jiang, Song, Liu, Zhang, Liu, Liu, Jia, and Chen, 2023, Asian Herpetol. Res., 14: 207, reported on mtDNA phylogenetics of the group. Mahony, Kamei, Brown, and Chan, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 252–253, while noting that the genetic data in support of Zhangixalus and Leptomantis as distinct from nominal Rhacophorus, disputed the morphological dististinctiveness of these taxa from Rhacophorus and on this basis considered Zhangixalus and Leptomantis to be a monophyletic subgenera of a larger Rhacophorus . DRF hesitates to embrace this change inasmuch as the subgenus category is relatively unpopular and the taxonomy frogs have a large user group, particularly in China. Nevertheless, DRF notes that the classification of Mahony et al. (2024) is consistent with the phylogeny as currently understood and may be adopted in this catalog in the future depending on usage by practicing taxonomists.

Contained taxa (43 sp.):

Zhangixalus achantharrhena (Harvey, Pemberton, and Smith, 2002)

Zhangixalus amamiensis (Inger, 1947)

Zhangixalus arboreus (Okada and Kawano, 1924)

Zhangixalus arvalis (Lue, Lai, and Chen, 1995)

Zhangixalus aurantiventris (Lue, Lai, and Chen, 1994)

Zhangixalus burmanus (Andersson, 1939)

Zhangixalus chenfui (Liu, 1945)

Zhangixalus dennysi (Blanford, 1881)

Zhangixalus dorsoviridis (Bourret, 1937)

Zhangixalus duboisi (Ohler, Marquis, Swan, and Grosjean, 2000)

Zhangixalus dugritei (David, 1872)

Zhangixalus dulitensis (Boulenger, 1892)

Zhangixalus feae (Boulenger, 1893)

Zhangixalus franki Ninh, Nguyen, Orlov, Nguyen, and Ziegler, 2020

Zhangixalus hongchibaensis (Li, Liu, Chen, Wu, Murphy, Zhao, Wang, and Zhang, 2012)

Zhangixalus hui (Liu, 1945)

Zhangixalus hungfuensis (Liu and Hu, 1961)

Zhangixalus jarujini (Matsui and Panha, 2006)

Zhangixalus jodiae Nguyen, Ninh, Orlov, Nguyen, and Ziegler, 2020

Zhangixalus leucofasciatus (Liu and Hu, 1962)

Zhangixalus lishuiensis (Liu, Wang, and Jiang, 2017)

Zhangixalus melanoleucus Brakels, Nguyen, Pawangkhanant, Idiiatullina, Lorphengsy, Suwannapoom, and Poyarkov, 2023

Zhangixalus minimus (Rao, Wilkinson, and Liu, 2006)

Zhangixalus moltrechti (Boulenger, 1908)

Zhangixalus nigropunctatus (Liu, Hu, and Yang, 1962)

Zhangixalus omeimontis (Stejneger, 1924)

Zhangixalus owstoni (Stejneger, 1907)

Zhangixalus pachyproctus Yu, Hui, Hou, Wu, Rao, and Yang, 2019

Zhangixalus pinglongensis (Mo, Chen, Liao, and Zhou, 2016)

Zhangixalus prasinatus (Mou, Risch, and Lue, 1983)

Zhangixalus prominanus (Smith, 1924)

Zhangixalus puerensis (He, 1999)

Zhangixalus schlegelii (Günther, 1858)

Zhangixalus smaragdinus (Blyth, 1852)

Zhangixalus suffry (Bordoloi, Bortamuli, and Ohler, 2007)

Zhangixalus taipeianus (Liang and Wang, 1978)

Zhangixalus thaoae Nguyen, Nguyen, Ninh, Le, Bui, Orlov, Hoang, and Ziegler, 2024

Zhangixalus viridis (Hallowell, 1861)

Zhangixalus wui (Li, Liu, Chen, Wu, Murphy, Zhao, Wang, and Zhang, 2012)

Zhangixalus yaoshanensis (Liu and Hu, 1962)

Zhangixalus yinggelingensis (Chou, Lau, and Chan, 2007)

Zhangixalus yunnanensis Pan, Hou, Yu, and Liu, 2024

Zhangixalus zhoukaiyae (Pan, Zhang, and Zhang, 2017)

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