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Rhacophorus rufipes Inger, 1966

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Rhacophorus

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Rhacophorus rufipes Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 333. Holotype: FMNH 147699, by original designation. Type locality: "five miles north of Labang, Fourth Division, Sarawak", Malaysia (Borneo).

English Names

Malaysian Flying Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 114).

Distribution

Isolated localities in south-central Sarawak and eastern Sabah, Malaysia (Borneo) and central Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Comment

Not assigned to subgenus by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77. Most similar to Rhacophorus harrissoni and Rhacophorus fasciatus according to the original publication. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 635. Haas, Hertwig, Krings, Braskamp, Dehling, Min, Jankowski, Schweizer, and Das, 2012, Zootaxa, 3328: 1-19, reported on larval morphology.

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