Feihyla Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006
Feihyla Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 246. Type species Philautus palpebalis Smith, 1924, by original designation.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Southern Annam, Vietnam to Cambodia, southern Yunnan, southern Guangxi, Hainan Island, and Guangdong, China. Yunnan, China; expected in northern Vietnam and intervening Laos
Comment
The content of this taxon is expected to expand as more species of "Philautus" and "Chirixalus" are evaluated phylogenetically, according to the original publication. Grosjean, Delorme, Dubois, and Ohler, 2008, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 46: 169-176, found Feihyla to be the sister taxon of Chiromantis and for that reason retained it in Chiromantis pending further resolution. Li, Che, Bain, Zhao, and Zhang, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 48: 302-312, found Feihyla, on the basis of somewhat denser taxonomic sampling and a larger dataset, to be more closely related to Rhacophorus, and therefore retained the genus. Yu, Rao, Yang, and Zhang, 2008, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 153: 733-749, suggested that Feihyla (as Philautus palpebralis) is the sister taxon of their Chirixalus vittatus (which they placed far from other Chiromantis/Chirixalus). Li, Rao, Murphy, and Zhang, 2011, Asian Herpetol. Res., Ser. 3, 2 (1): 1-11, noted a behavioral synapomorphy and suggested that Feihyla is monophyletic with the transfer of former Chiromantis vittatus into the genus by Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 35: 413-417. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, confirmed the monophyly of Chiromantis and placed Feihyla as the sister taxon of Taruga (which they did not recognize), Polypedates, and Rhacophorus.
Contained taxa
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