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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Subfamily
  
Rhacophorinae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Genus

Family
  
Rhacophoridae

Scientific name
  
Polypedates

Higher classification
  
Rhacophorinae

Order
  
Frog

Polypedates Polypedates otilophus

Lower classifications
  
Common tree frog, Polypedates megacephalus, Polypedates otilophus, Polypedates maculatus, Polypedates cruciger

Polypedates top 5 facts


Polypedates is a genus of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae, the shrub frogs and Paleotropic tree frogs. They belong to subfamily Rhacophoridae. Members of this genus are collectively known as whipping frogs. They occur in East, South and Southeast Asia.

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Polypedates Up Close with Nature Polypedates discantus

The delimitation of Polypedates versus the related Rhacophorus has been difficult. In former times, the present genus was often entirely included in Rhacophorus. However, molecular phylogenetic studies support the recognition of both genera. Polypedates + Taruga are considered to be the sister taxon of Feihyla + Rhacophorus.

Polypedates FileBanana Tree Frog Polypedates leucomystaxjpg Wikimedia Commons

Common tree frog polypedates leucomystax in singapore


Species

Currently 24 species are included in Polypedates, with new species still being described on a regular basis:

The recently described Polypedates bijui has now been renamed as Beddomixalus bijui, the only species in its genus.

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  • Polypedates assamensis Mathew & Sen, 2009
  • Polypedates braueri (Vogt, 1911) – White-lipped treefrog or Java treefrog
  • Polypedates chlorophthalmus Das, 2005
  • Polypedates colletti (Boulenger, 1890) – Collett's whipping frog, black-spotted tree frog, or Collett's tree frog
  • Polypedates cruciger Blyth, 1852 – Sri Lanka whipping frog or common hour-glass tree-frog
  • Polypedates hecticus Peters, 1863 – Samara flying frog
  • Polypedates impresus Yang, 2008
  • Polypedates insularis Das, 2005 – Nicobarese tree frog
  • Polypedates iskandari Riyanto, Mumpuni & McGuire, 2011
  • Polypedates leucomystax (Gravenhorst, 1829) – common tree frog, four-lined tree frog, striped tree frog, "white-lipped tree frog" (formerly often in P. maculatus)
  • Polypedates macrotis (Boulenger, 1891) – Bongao tree frog
  • Polypedates maculatus (Gray, 1830) – common Indian tree frog, Chunam tree frog
  • Polypedates megacephalus Hallowell, 1861 – spot-legged tree frog, Hong Kong whipping frog, "brown tree frog"
  • Polypedates mutus (Smith, 1940) – northern treefrog
  • Polypedates occidentalis Das and Dutta, 2006 – western tree frog
  • Polypedates otilophus (Boulenger, 1893) – file-eared tree frog, Borneo eared frog
  • Polypedates pseudocruciger Das and Ravichandran, 1998 – false hour-glass tree frog or yellow tree frog
  • Polypedates pseudotilophus Matsui, Hamidy, and Kuraishi, 2014
  • Polypedates ranwellai Wickramasingha, Munindradasa, and Fernando, 2012 – Ranwella's spined tree frog
  • Polypedates subansiriensis Mathew & Sen, 2009 – Subansiri's tree frog
  • Polypedates taeniatus (Boulenger, 1906) – Bengal whipping Frog, Bengal whipping tree frog, or Terai tree frog
  • Polypedates teraiensis (Dubois, 1987) – common tree frog, six-lined tree frog, Terai tree frog, or Perching frog
  • Polypedates zed (Dubois, 1987) – Nepalese tree frog or Narayanghat whipping frog

    • Phylogeny

    Polypedates FilePolypedates leucomystax weissbart ruderfroschjpg Wikimedia

    The following phylogeny of Polypedates is from Pyron & Wiens (2011). 8 species are included. Polypedates is a sister group of Feihyla. Together, Polypedates and Feihyla form a sister group to Rhacophorus.

    Polypedates Polypedates otilophus

    References

    Polypedates Wikipedia
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