Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Polypedates viridis Hallowell, 1861 "1860", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 12: 500. Holotype: Not stated; USNM 25397 according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 71. Type locality: "Loo-Choo" (= Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands), Japan.

Rhacophorus viridis — Boulenger, 1887, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887: 149.

Polypedates viridis — Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 147.

Polypedates schlegelii viridis — Van Denburgh, 1912, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 3: 202.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) viridis — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 151. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77.

Rhacophorus schlegelii viridis — Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 192. Inger, 1947, Fieldiana, Zool., 32: 344-345.

Rhacophorus schlegelii amamiensis Inger, 1947, Fieldiana, Zool., 32: 344. Holotype: CAS 23823, by original designation. Type locality: "Naze, Amami[shima]", Ryukyu Islands, Japan.

Rhacophorus viridis — Okada, 1966, Fauna Japon., Anura: 166.

English Names

Amami Green Tree Frog (Rhacophorus viridis amamiensis: Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 149; Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 124).

Okinawa Green Tree Frog (Rhacophorus viridis viridis: Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 153; Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 123).

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

Distribution

Amamioshima, Kakeromajima, Ukejima, Yorojima and Tokunoshima Islands of the Amami Group, and Okinawajima, Iheyajima and Kumejima Islands of the Okinawa Group, central Ryukyus, Japan.

Comment

In the Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) schlegelii group of Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77; see comment under Rhacophorus for dissenting opinion regarding the recognition of this group. See account by Okada, 1966, Fauna Japon., Anura: 166-171. See Kuramoto, 1979, Japan. J. Herpetol., 8: 11-13, for discussion of two subspecies. Nishioka, Sumida, Ohta, and Suzuki, 1987, Sci. Rep. Lab. Amph. Biol. Hiroshima Univ., 9: 53-96, rejected the status of this species a subspecies of Rhacophorus schlegeli and provided electrophoretic evidence the distinctiveness of the two subspecies. Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 146-153, provided accounts. Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 123-127, provided accounts, maps, and photographs. Nakamura, Takahashi, and Ota, 2009, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 28: 28-33, discussed the disappearance of this species from Yoronjima in the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan.

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