Rhacophorus bimaculatus

:"The name "Rhacophorus bimaculatus" was also used for "Rhacophorus bipunctatus", "Rhacophorus cyanopunctatus" and "Rhacophorus gauni" (see below)."Taxobox
name = "Rhacophorus bimaculatus"


status = VU
status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Amphibia
subclassis = Lissamphibia
ordo = Anura
subordo = Neobatrachia
familia = Rhacophoridae
subfamilia = Rhacophorinae
genus = "Rhacophorus"
species = "R. bimaculatus"
binomial = "Rhacophorus bimaculatus"
binomial_authority = (Peters, 1867)
synonyms = "Leptomantis bimaculata" Peters, 1867
"Philautus zamboangensis" Taylor, 1922

"Rhacophorus bimaculatus" is a frog species in the moss frog family (Rhacophoridae). Described by Wilhelm Peters in 1867Peters (1867)] , it is endemic to the Philippines. There, it is known to occur on the islands of Bohol, Mindanao, and in the south of Luzon; it might also be found on other islands as its known range brackets the main chain of the Philippines archipelago.Diesmos "et al." (2004)]

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, and freshwater springs. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Taxonomy

This species was initially placed in the genus "Leptomantis", as "L. bimaculata". It was erroneously described a second time in 1922, under the junior synonym "Philautus zamboangensis". When "Leptomantis" was merged into "Rhacophorus", its name became the senior homonym of the "R. bimaculatus" named so by G. A. Boulenger in 1882; that species was subsequently renamed to "R. bipunctatus" [Ahl (1927)] . For some time, it was believed that similar frogs from Indonesia and Malaysia also belonged to the present species. But this was found to be wrong, and the western relative is now known as "R. cyanopunctatus". Tadpoles from Borneo were also discussed under the name "R. bimaculatus"; these actually were of "R. cyanopunctatus" or "R. gauni" [Tzi Ming (2004)] .

Footnotes

References

* (1927): Zur Systematik der asiatischen Arten der Froschgattung "Rhacophorus" ["Regarding the systematics of the Asian species of the frog genus "Rhacophorus"] . "Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde Berlin" 15: 35–47.
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* (1867): Herpetologische Notizen ["Herpetological Notes"] . "Monatsberichte der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin" 1867: 13–37.
* (2004): Larval descriptions of some poorly known tadpoles from Peninsular Malaysia (Amphibia: Anura). "Raffles Bulletin of Zoology" 52(2): 609-620. [http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/52/52rbz609-620.pdf PDF fulltext]