The Rhacophorinae are a subfamily of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae. They range from tropical Africa and Asia to temperate China and Japan.
According to the "Amphibian Species of the World 5.6", the 14 genera are placed in the Rhacophorinae:
Chiromantis Peters, 1854 (15 species)Feihyla Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006 (two species)Ghatixalus Biju, Roelants, and Bossuyt, 2008 (two species)Gracixalus Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2005 (seven species)Kurixalus Ye, Fei, and Dubois, 1999 (10 species)Liuixalus Li, Che, Bain, Zhao, and Zhang, 2008 (five species)Mercurana Abraham et al., 2013 (one species)Nyctixalus Boulenger, 1882 (three species)Philautus Gistel, 1848 (50 species)Polypedates Tschudi, 1838 (23 species)Pseudophilautus Laurent, 1943 (70 species)Raorchestes Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta, and Bossuyt, 2010 (49 species)Rhacophorus Kuhl and Van Hasselt, 1822 (81 species)Taruga Meegaskumbura, Meegaskumbura, Bowatte, Manamendra-Arachchi, Pethiyagoda, Hanken, and Schneider, 2010 (three species)Theloderma Tschudi, 1838 (22 species)Other taxa with uncertain status:
Chirixalus is now considered a synonym of Chiromantis"Theloderma" moloch is included as incertae sedis in the Rhacophorinae.Beddomixalus has been described as a new genus in 2013, after the most recent update of the Amphibian Species of the World.The following phylogeny of Rhacophorinae is from Yu et al. (2008).
