Rohanixalus
Genus of amphibians
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Rohanixalus is a genus of tree frogs in the family Rhacophoridae native to the Andaman Islands and Indo-Burma region.[2][3] The genus was established in 2020 by Indian herpetologist S.D. Biju of the University of Delhi and his colleagues.[1] The genus comprises eight species.[2]
| Rohanixalus | |
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| Rohanixalus vittatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Rhacophoridae |
| Subfamily: | Rhacophorinae |
| Genus: | Rohanixalus Biju et al., 2020[1] |
| Type species | |
| Ixalus vittatus Boulenger, 1887 | |
| Species | |
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8 species (see text) | |
Etymology
The genus was named after Sri Lankan taxonomist Rohan Pethiyagoda, who is a prominent Ichthyologist responsible for the discovery and/or description of almost 100 new species of vertebrates from Sri Lanka, including fishes,[4] amphibians[5] and lizards,[6][7] in addition to 43 species of freshwater crabs.[8]
Description
The species of the genus characterised by a small and slender body with a size about 2 to 3 cm (0.79 to 1.18 in) long. There is a pair of contrastingly colored lateral lines on either side of the body.[3] Some minute brown speckles can be found scattered throughout the upper body surfaces. Females known to lay light greenish eggs in arboreal bubble-nests. Female mothers show maternal egg attendance where the mother attends the egg clutches until hatching and later assists in release of the tadpoles into the water.[9]
Distribution
The species are distributed throughout northeast, the Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, up to southern China.[9]
Species
| Species | Taxon author | Common name | Distribution | Ref. |
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| Rohanixalus baladika | (Riyanto and Kurniati, 2014) | Sumatran Bubble-nest Frog | North Sumatra and West Sumatra Provinces, Indonesia | [10] |
| Rohanixalus hansenae | (Cochran, 1927) | Hansen's Asian Treefrog | Thailand | [11] |
| Rohanixalus marginis | (Chan et al, 2011) | Malaysian Bubble-nest Frog | Perlis State Park, Malaysia | [12] |
| Rohanixalus nauli | (Riyanto and Kurniati, 2014) | Nauli Bubble-nest Frog | Teluk Nauli, Sibolga, Indonesia | [13] |
| Rohanixalus punctatus | (Wilkinson, Win, Thin, Lwin, Shein, and Tun, 2003) | – | Southwestern foothills of Rakhine Yoma, Myanmar | [14] |
| Rohanixalus senapatiensis | (Mathew and Sen, 2009) | Senapti's Bubble-nest Frog | northeastern India | [15] |
| Rohanixalus shyamrupus | (Chanda and Ghosh, 1989) | Hornbill Bubble-nest Frog | Arunachal Pradesh, India | [16] |
| Rohanixalus vittatus | (Boulenger, 1887) | Striped Bubble-nest frog | Myanmar, Thailand, and the Andaman Islands in India; records from elsewhere may be undescribed species | [17] |