Feihyla
Feihyla is a group of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae, subfamily Rhacophorinae. They live in southern China and Vietnam. Scientists think they might also live in Laos. Scientists are not sure exactly how these frogs are related to other groups of frogs, but they thing Feihyla is probably a sister taxon to Taruga, Polypedates, and Rhacophorus.[2] That means they think these four groups of frogs are closely related and had the same ancestor frog not too long ago. Scientists first made Feihyla because they could not figure out what to do with frogs in Chirixalus, specifically "Chirixalus palpebralis."[1]
| Feihyla | |
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| Feihyla inexpectata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Rhacophoridae |
| Subfamily: | Rhacophorinae |
| Genus: | Feihyla Frost et al., 2006[1] |
| Type species | |
| Philautus palpebalis Smith, 1924
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Description
changeScientists decide whether a frog is in Feihyla by looking how it lays its eggs. Feihyla frogs lay eggs in a pile of jelly that has bubbles in it.[3]
Species
changeThese species are in Feihyla:[2]
- Feihyla fuhua Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010
- Feihyla inexpectata (Matsui, Shimada, and Sudin, 2014)
- Feihyla kajau (Dring, 1983)
- Feihyla palpebralis (Smith, 1924)
- Feihyla samkosensis (Grismer, Neang, Chav, and Holden, 2007)
- Feihyla vittiger (Boulenger, 1897)
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Frost, D. R.; Grant, T.; Faivovich, J. N.; Bain, R. H.; Haas, A.; Haddad, C. L. F. B.; De Sá, R. O.; Channing, A.; Wilkinson, M.; Donnellan, S. C.; Raxworthy, C. J.; Campbell, J. A.; Blotto, B. L.; Moler, P.; Drewes, R. C.; Nussbaum, R. A.; Lynch, J. D.; Green, D. M.; Wheeler, W. C. (2006). "The Amphibian Tree of Life". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 297: 1–291. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/5781.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. (2013). "Feihyla Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006". Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
- ↑ Li, Jiatang; Dingqi Rao; Robert W. Murphy; Yaping Zhang (2011). "The systematic status of rhacophorid frogs" (PDF). Asian Herpetological Research. 2: 1–11. doi:10.3724/SP.J.1245.2011.00001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-11-17.
