Nyctixalus

Nyctixalus
Nyctixalus pictus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Rhacophoridae
Genus: Nyctixalus
Boulenger, 1882
Species

3, see text

Synonyms

Hazelia Taylor, 1920
Edwardtayloria Marx, 1975

Nyctixalus is a group of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae. People call them Indonesian tree frogs in English. They live in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, the Philippines, and southern Vietnam. Nyctixalus frogs are like Theloderma frogs, but they are two different genuses. Scientists call them "sister taxa." Scientists thought Nyctixalus was a subgenus inside Theloderma, but they looked at the frogs more and changed their minds.

Description

Nyctixalus are medium-sized frogs. The adults frogs are 30–40 mm (1.2–1.6 in) long from nose to rear end. Their bodies and legs have many spiny tubercles, or bumps, on them. The toes of the front feet have only a little webbed skin or no webbed skin at all. None of the frogs have a vocal sac.

Species

There are three species in the genus:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Nyctixalus Boulenger, 1882". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  2. ↑ Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Theloderma Tschudi, 1838". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  3. ↑ Li, Jiatang; Dingqi Rao; Robert W. Murphy; Yaping Zhang (2011). "The systematic status of rhacophorid frogs" (PDF). Asian Herpetological Research. 2: 1–11. doi:10.3724/SP.J.1245.2011.00001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-11-15.