Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 4504 No. 1: 23 Oct. 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-10-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4504.1.9
Page range: 138–144
Abstract views: 90
PDF downloaded: 3

Description and development of the tadpole of Rhacophorus feae (Anura; Rhacophoridae)

zoological society of London, Regent’s park, London, NW1 4RY
zoological society of London, Regent’s park, London, NW1 4RY
zoological society of London, Regent’s park, London, NW1 4RY
Amphibia Anura Rhacophoridae

Abstract

The genus Rhacophorus Kuhl & Van Hasselt is currently known to contain 92 species of frogs (Frost 2018), distributed across south and south-east Asia. Rhacophorus feae Boulenger is a large member of this genus and has a seemingly expansive range been recorded from southern Yunnan in China, the Karen hills in Myanmar, northern Thailand, northern Laos and northern Vietnam (Chanard et al. 1999; Orlov et al. 2002; Nguyen et al. 2005; Stuart 2005; Yang 2008). It is currently included in the intrageneric R. dennysi group (Dubois 1986) along with R. duboisi Ohler, Marquis, Swan & Grosjean , R. dennysi Blanford, R. dugritei (David), R. minimus Rao, Wilkinson & Liu, R. hungfuensis Liu & Hu, R. dorsoviridis Bourret, R. nigropunctatus Liu, Hu & Yang, and R. smaragdinus (Blyth).

 

References

  1. Altig, R. & McDiarmid, R. (1999) Body plan: developmental and morphology. In: McDiarmid, R. & Altig, R. (Eds.), Tadpoles—the biology of anuran larvae. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 24–51.

    Altig, R. & McDiarmid, R. (2007) Morphological diversity and evolution of egg and clutch structure in amphibians. Herpetological Monographs, 21, 1–32.
    https://doi.org/10.1655/06-005.1

    Bagaturov, M. & Bagaturova, A. (2012) Erstnachzucht von Feas Riesenruderfrosch, Rhacophorus feae, im Leningrad Zoo. Terraria, 35, 76–89.

    Chanard, T., Grossmann, W., Gumprecht, A. & Schulz, K. (1999) Amphibians and Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia and Thailand - an illustrated checklist. Bushmaster Publications, Wuerselen, 82 pp.

    Chou, W. & Lin, J (1997) Tadpoles of Taiwan. National Museum of Natural Science, 7, 1–98.

    Dubois, A. (1986) Miscellanea Taxinomica Batrachologica (I). Alytes, 5, 7–95.

    Frost, D. (2018) Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0., American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Available from: http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Rhacophorus (accessed 19 August 2018)

    Gosner, K. (1960) A simplified table for staging anuran embryos and larvae with notes on identification. Herpetologica, 16, 183–190.

    Grosjean, S. (2001) The tadpole of Leptobrachium (Vibrissaphora) echinatum (Amphibia, Anura, Megophyidae). Zoosystema-Paris, 23, 143–156.

    Grosjean, S. & Inthara, C. (2016) Molecular identifications and descriptions of the tadpoles of Rhacophorus kio Ohler & Delorme, 2006 and Rhacophorus rhodopus Liu & Hu, 1960 (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae). Zoosystema, 38, 267–282.
    https://doi.org/10.5252/z2016n2a5

    Haas, A., Hertwig, S., Krings, W., Braskamp, E., Dehling, J., Min, P., Jankowski, A., Schweizer, M. & Das, I. (2012) Description of three Rhacophorus tadpoles (Lissamphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo). Zootaxa, 3328, 1–19.

    Hendrix, R., Grosjean, S., Quyet, L., Vences, M., Thanh, V. & Ziegler, T. (2007) Molecular identification and description of the tadpole of the Annam Flying Frog, Rhacophorus annamensis Smith, 1924 (Anura: Rhacophoridae). Salamandra, 43, 11–19.

    Inger, R.F. (1966) The systematics and zoogeography of the Amphibia of Borneo. Fieldiana Zoology, 52, 1–402.

    Inger, R.F. (1985) Tadpoles of the forested regions of Borneo. Fieldiana Zoology, 26, 1–89.

    Inger, R., Orlov, N. & Darevsky, I. (1999) Frogs of Vietnam: A report on new collections. Fieldiana Zoology, 92, 1–46.

    Li, J., Li, Y., Murphy, R., Rao, D. & Zhang, Y. (2012) Phylogenetic resolution and systematics of the Asian tree frogs, Rhacophorus (Rhacophoridae, Amphibia). Zoologica Scripta, 41, 557–570.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00557.x

    Liu, C., Hu, S. & Yang, F. (1962) Preliminary report of Amphibia from western Kweichow. Acta Zoologica Sinica / Dong wu xue bao, 14, 381–392.

    Nguyen, V., Ho, T. & Nguyen, Q. (2005) A checklist of amphibians and reptiles of Vietnam. Nha xuat ban nong nghiep, Hanoi, 180 pp.

    Ohler, A. & Deuti, K. (2018) Polypedates smaragdinus Blyth, 1852—a senior subjective synonym of Rhacophorus maximus Günther, 1858. Zootaxa, 4375 (2), 273–280.
    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4375.2.7

    Ohler, A., Marquis, O., Swan, R & Grosjean, S. (2000) Amphibian biodiversity of Hoang Lien Nature Reserve (Lao Cai Province, northern Vietnam) with description of two new species. Herpetozoa, 13, 71–87.

    Orlov, N., Lathrop, A., Murphy, R. & Ho, T. (2001) Frogs of the family Rhacophoridae (Anura: Amphibia) in the northern Hoang Lien Mountains (Mount Fan Si Pan, Sa Pa District, Lao Cai Province), Vietnam. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 8, 17–44.

    Orlov, N., Murphy, R., Ananjeva, N., Ryabov, S. & Ho, T (2002) Herpetofauna of Vietnam, a checklist. Part I. Amphibia. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 9, 81–104.

    Ostroshabov, A., Orlov, N. & Nguyen, T. (2013) Taxonomy of frogs of genus Rhacophorus of hoangliensis-orlovi complex. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 20, 301–324.

    Rao, D., Wilkinson, J. & Lui, H. (2006) A new species of Rhacophorus (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Guangxi Province, China. Zootaxa, 1258, 17–31.

    Rowley, J., Tran, D., Le, D., Hoang, H. & Altig, R. (2012) The strangest tadpole: the oophagous, tree-hole dwelling tadpole of Rhacophorus vampyrus (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Vietnam. Journal of Natural History, 46, 2969–2978.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2012.732622

    Schindelin, J., Arganda-Carreras, I., Frise, E., Kaynig, V., Longair, M., Pietzsch, T., Preibisch, S., Rueden, C., Saalfeld, S., Schmid, B. & Tinevez, J. (2012) Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis. Nature methods, 9, 676.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2019

    Stuart, B. (2005) New frog records from Laos. Herpetological Review, 36, 473–479.

    Vassilieva, A., Gogoleva, S. & Poyarkov, N. (2016) Larval morphology and complex vocal repertoire of Rhacophorus helenae (Anura: Rhacophoridae), a rare flying from Vienam. Zootaxa, 4127 (3), 515–536.
    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4127.3.6

    Wildenhues, M., Gawor, A., Nguyen, T., Nguyen, T., Schmitz, A. & Ziegler, T. (2010) First description of larval and juvenile stages of Rhacophorus maximus Günther, 1859 “1858” (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Vietnam. Revue suisse de Zoologie, 117, 679–676.
    https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.118618

    Wildenhues, M., Bagaturov, M., Schmitz, A., Tran, D., Hendrix, R. & Ziegler, T. (2011) Captive management and reproductive biology of Orlov's Treefrog, Rhacophorus orlovi Ziegler & Köhler, 2001 (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae), including larval description, colour pattern variation and advertisement call. Der Zoologische Garten, 80, 287–303.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zoolgart.2011.10.002

    Wilkinson, J., Drewes, R. & Tatum, O. (2002) A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the family Rhacophoridae with an emphasis on the Asian and African genera. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 24, 265–273.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00212-9

    Yang, D. (2008) Amphibia and reptilia of Yunnan. Yunnan Publishing Group Corporation, Yunnan Science and Technology Press, Kunming City, 411 pp. [pp. 108–109]

    Ziegler, T. & Köhler, J. (2001) Rhacophorus orlovi sp. n., ein neuer Ruderfrosch aus Vietnam (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae). Sauria, 23, 37–46.