Animalia > Chordata > Amphibia > Anura > Rhacophoridae > Polypedates > Polypedates megacephalus

Polypedates megacephalus (Hong Kong Whipping Frog)

Synonyms: Polypedates maculatus unicolor; Rhacophorus leucomystax megacephalus

Wikipedia Abstract

Polypedates megacephalus, the Hong Kong Whipping Frog or Spot-legged Tree Frog, is a species in the shrub frog family (Rhacophoridae). In its native range, it is also called "brown tree frog", but this name is otherwise applied to a species of the true tree frog family (Hylidae).
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
18
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.96
EDGE Score: 1.94
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Litter Size [1]  481
Litters / Year [1]  1
Snout to Vent Length [1]  2.756 inches (7 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Daweishan Nature Reserve V 122415 Yunnan, China  
Gaoligong Mountain National Nature Reserve V 1245925 Yunnan, China  
Kenting National Park II 78882 Taiwan

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Predators

Trimeresurus stejnegeri (Chinese Green Tree Viper, Stejneger’s Bamboo pitviper; chenbihuii)[2]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Oliveira, Brunno Freire; São-Pedro, Vinícius Avelar; Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Penone, Caterina; C. Costa, Gabriel. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Sci. Data.
♦ 2Offshore Insular Variation in the Diet of the Taiwanese Bamboo Viper Trimeresurus stejnegeri (Schmidt), Simon Creer, Wen-Hao Chou, Anita Malhotra and Roger S. Thorpe, ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE 19: 907–913 (2002)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0