''Kurixalus'' is a genus of
frog
A frog is any member of a diverse and largely Carnivore, carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order (biology), order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-f ...
s in the family
Rhacophoridae
The Rhacophoridae are a family of frogs that occur in tropical sub-Saharan Africa, South India and Sri Lanka, Japan, northeastern India to eastern China and Taiwan, south through the Philippines and Greater Sundas, and Sulawesi. They are commonly ...
. The
taxonomy
Taxonomy is the practice and science of categorization or classification.
A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. ...
of small
rhacophids is difficult and has been subject to many revisions, but molecular genetic data do support
monophyly
In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic grou ...
of ''Kurixalus''. These frogs are distributed from Himalayan front ranges of eastern India southward and eastward to Cambodia, Vietnam, southern China, Taiwan, and the
Ryukyu Islands
The , also known as the or the , are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonaguni ...
.
Species
, the following 19 species are recognized:
* ''
Kurixalus absconditus''
Mediyansyah, Hamidy, Munir, and Matsui, 2019 – Piasak-frilled swamp treefrog
* ''
Kurixalus appendiculatus''
(Günther, 1858) – frilled tree frog, rough-armed tree frog, or Southeast Asian tree frog
* ''
Kurixalus baliogaster''
(Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999) – belly-spotted frog
* ''
Kurixalus banaensis''
(Bourret, 1939) – Bana bubble-nest frog
* ''
Kurixalus berylliniris''
Wu, Huang, Tsai, Li, Jhang, and Wu, 2016
* ''
Kurixalus bisacculus
''Kurixalus bisacculus'' (common name: Taylor's tree frog and many others) is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is found in Southeast Asia and southern China. Because of confusion with other species ('' Kurixalus odontotarsus'', ' ...
''
(Taylor, 1962) − Taylor's treefrog
* ''
Kurixalus chaseni
''Kurixalus'' is a genus of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae. The taxonomy of small rhacophids is difficult and has been subject to many revisions, but molecular genetic data do support monophyly of ''Kurixalus''. These frogs are distributed fr ...
''
(Smith, 1924)
* ''
Kurixalus eiffingeri
''Kurixalus eiffingeri'' (Eiffinger's Tree Frog) is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is found in Taiwan and on the Yaeyama Islands of Japan. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical o ...
''
(Boettger, 1895)
* ''
Kurixalus gracilloides''
Nguyen, Duong, Luu, and Poyarkov, 2020
* ''
Kurixalus hainanus''
(Zhao, Wang, and Shi, 2005)
* ''
Kurixalus idiootocus''
(Kuramoto and Wang, 1987) – temple tree frog
* ''
Kurixalus lenquanensis''
Yu, Wang, Hou, Rao, and Yang, 2017
* ''
Kurixalus motokawai
''Kurixalus'' is a genus of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae. The taxonomy of small rhacophids is difficult and has been subject to many revisions, but molecular genetic data do support monophyly of ''Kurixalus''. These frogs are distributed fr ...
''
Nguyen, Matsui, and Eto, 2014
* ''
Kurixalus naso''
(Annandale, 1912) – uphill tree frog, long-snouted treefrog, Annandale's high altitude frog
* ''
Kurixalus odontotarsus''
(Ye and Fei, 1993) – serrate-legged small treefrog
* ''
Kurixalus verrucosus''
(Boulenger, 1893) – small rough-armed tree frog
* ''
Kurixalus viridescens
''Kurixalus'' is a genus of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae. The taxonomy of small rhacophids is difficult and has been subject to many revisions, but molecular genetic data do support monophyly of ''Kurixalus''. These frogs are distributed fr ...
''
Nguyen, Matsui, and Duc, 2014
* ''
Kurixalus wangi''
Wu, Huang, Tsai, Li, Jhang, and Wu, 2016
* ''
Kurixalus yangi
''Kurixalus'' is a genus of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae. The taxonomy of small rhacophids is difficult and has been subject to many revisions, but molecular genetic data do support monophyly of ''Kurixalus''. These frogs are distributed fr ...
''
Yu, Hui, Rao, and Yang, 2018
References
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Rhacophoridae
Amphibians of Asia
Amphibian genera