Chirixalus Boulenger, 1893

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Chirixalus
6 species

Chirixalus Boulenger, 1893, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 2, 13: 340. Type species: Chirixalus doriae Boulenger, 1893, by monotypy. 

English Names

Striped Asian Treefrogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 111).

Burmese Bushfrogs (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 146).

Asian Treefrogs (Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 29).

Pigmy Tree Frogs (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 11).

Distribution

Southeast Asia (northeastern India, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, China) south to peninsular Malaysia and Sabah in Borneo.

Comment

Chirixalus was suggested to be paraphyletic with respect to African Chiromantis by 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. This result was corroborated by Wiens, Sukumaran, Pyron, and Brown, 2009, Evolution, 63: 1217–1231. Aowphol, Rujirawan, Taksintum, Arsirapot, and McLeod, 2013, Zootaxa, 3702: 101–123, reported on the molecular phylogenetics of the Chiromantis in Thailand and provided weak evidence for the polyphyly of the taxon, with Chiromantis hansenae and Chiromantis vittatus being more closely related to FeihylaRhacophorus, and Polypedates, and Chiromantis doriae and Chiromantis nonghkorensis being outside of this clade, but rendering African Chiromantis as paraphyletic. Removed from the synonymy of Chiromantis (with which it is the sister-taxon) by Chen, Prendini, Wu, Zhang, Suwannapoom, Chen, Jin, Lemmon, Lemmon, Stuart, Raxworthy, Murphy, Yuan, and Che, 2020, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 145 (106724): 5, where it had been placed by 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.  Munir, Hamidy, Kusrini, Kennedi, Ridha, Qayyim, Rafsanzani, and Nishikawa, 2021, Raffles Bull. Zool., 69: 219–234, provided a table of diagnostic morphological characters for the species within the genus and also provided ML and Bayesian molecular trees based on 483 bp of 16s mtDNA. Herlambang, Laksono, Riyanto, Fauzan, and Hamidy, 2023, Treubia, 50: 116, provided a 16s mtDNA tree of the species. 

Contained taxa (6 sp.):

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