Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rhacophorus exechopygus Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S.,, 92: 35. Holotype: FMNH 252841, by original designation. Type locality: "Tram Lap, An Khe District, Gia-Lai Province, Vietnam".

English Names

Spinybottom Tree Frog (Bain and Nguyen, 2002, Herpetol. Rev., 33: 64).

Tramlap Flying Tree Frog (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 40).

Distribution

Central Highlands of Vietnam in Gia Lai, Kon Tum, Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Binh, and Quang Nam provinces; adjacent Annamite Mountains of Laos, 800-1400 m elevation.

Comment

Bain and Nguyen, 2002, Herpetol. Rev., 33: 64, provided the second locality for this species. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 97, provided the statement of range. Stuart, 1999, in Duckworth et al. (eds.), Wildlife in Lao PDR: 49, reported the species in Laos. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 40, provided specific localities for Vietnam. Bain, Nguyen, and Doan, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 111, provided records for Thua Thien-Hue Province, Vietnam, and briefly discussed the range. Orlov, Nguyen, and Ho, 2008, Russ. J. Herpetol., 15: 67-84, provided a photograph and a key to differentiate this species from others in Vietnam. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 539. Hendrix, Nguyen, Böhme, and Ziegler, 2008, Herpetol. Notes, 1: 23-31, provided a record from Quang Binh Province, central Vietnam.

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