Gracixalus

Gracixalus
Gracixalus lumarius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Rhacophoridae
Subfamily:	Rhacophorinae
Genus:	Gracixalus Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean & Ohler, 2005
Type species
Philautus gracilipes Bourret, 1937
Diversity
See text

Gracixalus is a genus of shrub frogs (family Rhacophoridae) from south-eastern Asia. ^[1]

Phylogenetic evidence indicates that it is the sister genus to the genus Vampyrius , which contains the vampire tree frog. ^{[2] [3]}

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Gracixalus: ^{[1] [4]}

• Gracixalus carinensis (Boulenger, 1893)
• Gracixalus gracilipes (Bourret, 1937)
• Gracixalus guangdongensis Wang, Zeng, Liu, and Wang, 2018
• Gracixalus jinggangensis Zeng, Zhao, Chen, Chen, Zhang, and Wang, 2017
• Gracixalus jinxiuensis (Hu, 1978)
• Gracixalus lumarius Rowley, Le, Dau, Hoang & Cao, 2014
• Gracixalus medogensis (Ye & Hu, 1984)
• Gracixalus nonggangensis Mo, Zhang, Luo & Chen, 2013 ^[5]
• Gracixalus patkaiensis Boruah, Deepak, Patel, Jithin, Yomcha and Das, 2023
• Gracixalus quangi (Rowley, Dau, Nguyen, Cao & Nguyen, 2011)
• Gracixalus quyeti (Nguyen, Hendrix, Böhme, Vu & Ziegler, 2008)
• Gracixalus sapaensis Matsui, Ohler, Eto, and Nguyen, 2017
• Gracixalus seesom (Matsui, Khonsue, Panha & Eto, 2015)
• Gracixalus supercornutus (Orlov, Ho & Nguyen, 2004)
• Gracixalus tianlinensis Chen, Bei, Liao, Zhou, and Mo, 2018
• Gracixalus trieng Rowley, Le, Hoang, Cao & Dau, 2020 ^[6]
• Gracixalus truongi Tran, Pham, Le, Nguyen, Ziegler, and Pham, 2023
• Gracixalus yunnanensis Yu, Li, Wang, Rao, Wu, and Yang, 2019 ^[7]
• Gracixalus ziegleri Le, Do, Tran, Nguyen, Orlov, Ninh & Nguyen, 2021

References

1. Frost, Darrel R. (2023). "Gracixalus Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2005". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.2. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
2. Dubois, Alain; Ohler, Annemarie; Pyron, R. Alexander (2021-02-26). "New concepts and methods for phylogenetic taxonomy and nomenclature in zoology, exemplified by a new ranked cladonomy of recent amphibians (Lissamphibia)". Megataxa. 5 (1): 1–738–1–738. doi: 10.11646/megataxa.5.1.1 . ISSN   2703-3090.
3. "Vampyrius Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021 | Amphibian Species of the World". amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
4. "Rhacophoridae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
5. Mo; Zhang; Luo; Zhou; Chen (2013). "A new species of the genus Gracixalus (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Southern Guangxi, China". Zootaxa. 3616 (1): 61–72. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3616.1.5. PMID   24758792.
6. Rowley, Jodi J. L.; Le, Duong Thi Thuy; Hoang, Huy Duc; Cao, Trung Tien; Dau, Vinh Quang (2020-05-20). "A new species of phytotelm breeding frog (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from the Central Highlands of Vietnam" . Zootaxa. 4779 (3): 341–354. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.3. ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   33055777. S2CID   219778820.
7. Boruah, Bitupan; Deepak, V.; Patel, Naitik G.; Jithin, Vijayan; Yomcha, Tajum; Das, Abhijit (2023-05-26). "A new species of green tree frog of the genus Gracixalus (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from the evergreen forest of Northeast India". Vertebrate Zoology. 73: 557–574. doi: 10.3897/vz.73.e98444 . ISSN   2625-8498.