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Helen's tree frog (Rhacophorus helenae) is a flying frogs found in low-lying forests of southern Vietnam, from Nui Ong Nature Reserve, Bình Thuận Province to jungle in Tân Phú District, Đồng Nai. It is named after Helen M. Rowley, mother of one of the discoverers.
This behavioral adaptation is the source of their common name, "flying frogs". The present genus is closely related to Polypedates , which (formerly) was included in Rhacophorus . Even today, it is not fully agreed upon which of these genera "P." feae and the Chinese flying frog ( "R." dennysi ) properly belong to; furthermore, a supposedly new ...
Rhacophorus reinwardtii is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is variously known under the common names of black-webbed treefrog, green flying frog, Reinwardt's flying frog, or Reinwardt's treefrog. Before 2006, Rhacophorus reinwardtii and Rhacophorus kio were considered to be the same species. [2]
Eleven endangered male frogs that traveled 7,000 miles (11,000 kilometers) in a bid to save their species from extinction have “given birth” to 33 froglets at London Zoo.
Rhacophorus pseudomalabaricus, also known as Anaimalai flying frog, false Malabar gliding frog, [2] and false Malabar tree frog, [3] is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to the Anaimalai Hills , a part of the southern the Western Ghats in the Tamil Nadu and Kerala states, India .
The crawfish frog, endangered in the Hoosier State, is back following an effort led by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and Angel Mounds. History of crawfish frogs at Angel Mounds
Wallace's flying frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus), also known as the gliding frog or the Abah River flying frog, is a moss frog found at least from the Malay Peninsula into western Indonesia, and is present in Borneo and Sumatra. It is named for the biologist, Alfred R. Wallace, who collected the first known specimen. [2]
Aug. 28—For the fourth time, hundreds of endangered frogs were released into the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge with the intent to revitalize their population. The nearly 400 northern leopard ...