Zhangixalus hongchibaensis
The Wuxi tree frog (Zhangixalus hongchibaensis) is a frog. Scientists have seen it in exactly one place: Hongchiba in Wuxi County. This is in Chongqing Province, China.[2][3][1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Rhacophoridae |
| Genus: | Zhangixalus |
| Species: | Z. hongchibaensis
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| Zhangixalus hongchibaensis (Li, Liu, Chen, Wu, Murphy, Zhao, Wang, and Zhang, 2012)
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The adult male frog is about 46.5–49.7 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is about 55.3 mm long. The skin of the frog's back is light green in color with yellow spots. The spots have dark edges. It has short front legs. There is light red color on the bottoms of the back legs. There is brown color on the toes. The insides of the back legs are white with brown spots.[4]
The female frog lays eggs in foam nests on plants near water.[1]
People have seen this frog between 1500 and 2500 meters above sea level. Scientists named this frog hongchibiensis after the place where they found it: Hongchiba. Honchiba is the largest alpine grassland in China.[4]
Scientists say this frog is in danger of dying out because it only lives two small places. One of them is a protected park: Micang Mountain National Nature Reserve.[1]
References change
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2022). "Wuxi Treefrog: Zhangixalus hongchibaensis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1. p. e.T79129190A122172437. 79129190. Retrieved May 15, 2024.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Zhangixalus hongchibaensis (Li, Liu, Chen, Wu, Murphy, Zhao, Wang, and Zhang, 2012)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
- ↑ "Zhangixalus hongchibaensis (Li, Liu, Chen, Wu, Murphy, Zhao, Wang, and Zhang, 2012)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Li J-T; Liu J; Chen Y-Y; Wu J-W; Murphy RW; Zhao E-M; Wang Y-Z; Zhang Y-P (2012). "Molecular phylogeny of treefrogs in the Rhacophorus dugritei species complex (Anura: Rhacophoridae), with descriptions of two new species". Zool J Linnean Soc (full text). 165: 143–162. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00790.x. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
