Tadpole of the Vietnamese jelly-nest tree frog, Feihyla palpebralis (Anura: Rhacophoridae): external morphology and chondrocranium
Abstract
The genus Feihyla Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler was established relatively recently (Frost et al. 2006), but to date its composition has changed several times due to the extremely confusing and labile systematics of small rhacophorids (e.g., Grosjean et al. 2008; Hertwig et al. 2013; Biju et al. 2020). It embeds rather miniature, delicate tree frogs and currently comprises six species (Frost 2023). The type species, Feihyla palpebralis (Smith 1924), was described from Mount Langbian in the southern part of the Truong Son Range (Annamite Mountains) and was long considered endemic to Vietnam; recent reports that it is also distributed in China can be based on misidentification and need reliable confirmation (Biju et al. 2020).
Subject
Animal Science and Zoology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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