Chinese flying frog

The Chinese flying frog or Chinese gliding frog (Zhangixalus dennysi) is a species of tree frog in the family Rhacophoridae found in China, Laos, Burma, and Vietnam. It is also known as Blanford's whipping frog, large treefrog, and Denny's whipping frog.[2]

Adult exhibited at Museum of Discovery and Science (Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US)

Chinese flying frog

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Rhacophoridae
Genus: Zhangixalus
Species:
Z. dennysi
Binomial name
Zhangixalus dennysi
(Blanford, 1881)
Synonyms
  • Polypedates dennysi (Blanford, 1881)
  • Rhacophorus dennysi Blanford, 1881

It is up to 10 cm (3.9 in) long. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, ponds, irrigated land, and canals, and ditches.

Females lay eggs in foam nests attached to branches and grasses hanging over water. They create nests by beating a frothy secretion into foam with their hind legs.

It is considered Least Concern by the IUCN.

References
  1. van Dijk, P.P.; Truong, N.Q.; Stuart, B.; Lau, M.W.N.; Baorong, G.; Huiqing, G.; Datong, Y. (2004). "Rhacophorus dennysi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004: e.T58987A11855235. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  2. Rhacophorus dennysi, Amphibian Species of the World 5.6

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