Rhacophorus reinwardtii (1) Flying Frog Amphibia Anura Treefrogs

Description

Sex : M

Origin : Est Java (Indonesia)

Flying Frog Rhacophorus reinwardtii body cm 4.5-5 Amphibia Anura Treefrogs, dried spread position, as in photo.
N.B. the legs are excluded from the length measurement.
Family: Rhacophoridae.
Common name: Black-Webbed Treefrog, Green Flying Frog, Reinwardt's Flying Frog or Reinwardt's Treefrog.

Rhacophorus reinwardtii is a species of Flying Treefrog in the family Rhacophoridae. Before 2006, Rhacophorus reinwardtii and Rhacophorus kio were considered to be the same species.
It is found in China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, and possibly Brunei and Myanmar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes.
The females grow to be larger than the males, to a length of 8.9 cm. They can be either light green or dark green colors and they have black spots around their backs and heads. Males can have more colors on the sides of their abdomens, such as orange, green, purple, black, and yellow. Their eyes can be light green, light yellow or light grey. They have horizontal pupils.

The term Flying Frogs is generally referred to as many frog species, mostly unrelated to each other, which have evolved the ability to glide over short distances thanks to the presence of strips of skin between the fingers or between the legs. It is mostly arboreal species, for which adaptation to the "flight" has turned out to be a consequence of life on the trees, which allowed them to move more quickly from one branch to another and to escape more easily to predators.
It is estimated that there are more than 3,000 different species of flying frogs, including two distinct families: Hylidae, endemic to the American continent, and particularly to the rainforests of South America, and Rhacophoridae, endemic to Asia, particularly in the monsoon jungles of South East Asia . Sometimes the term flying frogs refers mainly to the members of the latter family, the first to be observed and described and which has the greatest number of members. However, both families also include many non-flying arboreal species.
The first testimonies of flying frogs were reported by the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who observed some specimens in the forests of Malaysia. The species he observed, Rhacophorus nigropalmatus, took from him the common name of "Wallace's Flying Frog". Other well-known species of flying frogs are:
Rhacophorus dulitensis
Rhacophorus pardalis
Rhacophorus reinwardtii
Rhacophorus suffry