Scientists have disagreed about whether these frogs should be called Polypedates or Rhacophorus. molecular phylogenetic studies show that they are two different groups of frogs and not the same group. Polypedates and Taruga are considered to be the sister taxon of Feihyla and Rhacophorus.
Species
These species are in the genus Polypedates, and scientists find more often:
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
The recently described Polypedates bijui has now been renamed as Beddomixalus bijui, the only species in its genus.
Phylogeny
Pyron & Wiens (2011) say that the frogs are related to each other this way. 8 species are included. Polypedates is a sister group of Feihyla. Together, Polypedates and Feihyla form a sister group to Rhacophorus.
Another group of scientists, Kuraishi, et al. (2013), say the frogs are related to each other this way. Polypedates and Rhacophorus are estimated to have split off from their most recent common ancestor 26.6 million years ago during the Oligocene.
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↑KURAISHI, N., MATSUI, M., HAMIDY, A., BELABUT, D. M., AHMAD, N., PANHA, S., SUDIN, A., YONG, H. S., JIANG, J.-P., OTA, H., THONG, H. T. and NISHIKAWA, K. (2013), Phylogenetic and taxonomic relationships of the Polypedates leucomystax complex (Amphibia). Zoologica Scripta, 42: 54–70. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00562.x
↑Pan, S., N. Dang, J.S. Wang, Y. Zheng, D.Q. Rao, and J.T. Li. 2013. Molecular phylogeny supports the validity of Polypedates impresus Yang 2008. Asian Herpetological Research 4: 124–133.
