Feihyla marginis (Chan, Grismer, Anuar, Quah, Grismer, Wood, Muin, and Ahmad, 2011)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Feihyla > Species: Feihyla marginis

Chiromantis marginis Chan, Grismer, Anuar, Quah, Grismer, Wood, Muin, and Ahmad, 2011, Russ. J. Herpetol., 18: 256. Holotype: LSUHC 9700, by original designation. Type locality: "from the dam behind Perlis State Park chalets, Perlis, Peninsular Malaysia (6°4152.53N 100°1129.91E; elevation 140 m a.s.l.)."

Chirixalus marginis — Chen, Prendini, Wu, Zhang, Suwannapoom, Chen, Jin, Lemmon, Lemmon, Stuart, Raxworthy, Murphy, Yuan, and Che, 2020, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 145 (106724): 5. 

Rohanixalus marginis — Biju, Garg, Gokulakrishnan, Sivaperuman, Thammachoti, Ren, Gopika, Bisht, Hamidy, and Shouche, 2020, Zootaxa, 4878: 29.  

Feihyla marginis — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 542, by implication.

English Names

Malaysian Bubble-nest Frog (Biju, Garg, Gokulakrishnan, Sivaperuman, Thammachoti, Ren, Gopika, Bisht, Hamidy, and Shouche, 2020, Zootaxa, 4878: 40.

Marginal Whipping Frog (Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 390).

Malaccan Bubble-nest Treefrog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 62). 

Distribution

Perlis State Park, West Malaysia, and likely into the immediately adjacent borderlands of Thailand.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Malaysia, Malaysia, West (Peninsular)

Likely/Controversially Present: Thailand

Endemic: Malaysia, Malaysia, West (Peninsular)

Comment

Most similar to Chiromantis hansenae and Chiromantis vittatus according to the original publication. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 390–391, provided a brief account (description, photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai).  See brief account by Biju, Garg, Gokulakrishnan, Sivaperuman, Thammachoti, Ren, Gopika, Bisht, Hamidy, and Shouche, 2020, Zootaxa, 4878: 40–41. 

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