A new tree frog species from Borneo Rhacophorus gadingensis

A new tree frog species
Rhacophorus gadingensis

Newly discovered Borneo tree frog (Rhacophorus gadingensis).
© Alexander Haas

Name: Rhacophorus gadingensis (Anura:Rhacophoridae)

Description: A new species of tree frog measuring 29.5mm long. It has an obtuse snout, a head slightly wider than it is long and webbed fingers and toes. Its back is brown with dark brown blotches, its flanks have blue blotches and its eyes are large. This new tree frog is named after the Gunung Gading National Park in which it was found.

Location: Discovered in Gunung Gading National Park, Sarawak, western Borneo, near the coast west of Kuching. The genus Rhacophorus is known to contain over 60 nominal species of which at least 41 occur in south-east Asia alone. The members of the genus are distributed from southern China, Sri Lanka and south-western and north-eastern India south to Indo-China and Indo-Malaya (Frost, 1985). Of these, as many as 14 species have been reported from Borneo (Inger & Stuebing, 1997; Inger & Tan, 1996).

Source(s): The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 2005 53(2): Pp. 257-263. National University of Singapore. Date of Publication: 31 Dec. 2005

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