Rohanixalus

Rohanixalus is a genus of tree frogs in the family Rhacophoridae native to the Andaman islands and Indo-Burma region.^[2][3] The genus was established in 2020 by Indian herpetologist S.D. Biju of the University of Delhi and his colleagues.^[1] The genus comprises eight species.^[2]

Rohanixalus
Rohanixalus vittatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Rhacophoridae
Subfamily:	Rhacophorinae
Genus:	Rohanixalus Biju et al., 2020[1]
Type species
Ixalus vittatus Boulenger, 1887
Species
8 species (see text)

Etymology

The genus was named after Sri Lankan taxonomist Rohan Pethiyagoda, who is a prominent Ichthyologist responsible for the discovery and/or description of almost 100 new species of vertebrates from Sri Lanka, including fishes,^[4] amphibians^[5] and lizards,^[6][7] in addition to 43 species of freshwater crabs.^[8]

Description

The species of the genus characterised by a small and slender body with a size about 2 to 3 cm (0.79 to 1.18 in) long. There is a pair of contrastingly colored lateral lines on either side of the body.^[3] Some minute brown speckles can be found scattered throughout the upper body surfaces. Females known to lay light greenish eggs in arboreal bubble-nests. Female mothers show maternal egg attendance where the mother attends the egg clutches until hatching and later assists in release of the tadpoles into the water.^[9]

Distribution

The species are distributed throughout northeast, the Andaman islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, up to southern China.^[9]

Species

Species	Taxon author	Common name	Distribution	Ref.
Rohanixalus baladika	(Riyanto and Kurniati, 2014)	Sumatran Bubble-nest Frog	North Sumatra and West Sumatra Provinces, Indonesia	[10]
Rohanixalus hansenae	(Cochran, 1927)	Hansen's Asian Treefrog	Thailand	[11]
Rohanixalus marginis	(Chan et al, 2011)	Malaysian Bubble-nest Frog	Perlis State Park, Malaysia	[12]
Rohanixalus nauli	(Riyanto and Kurniati, 2014)	Nauli Bubble-nest Frog	Teluk Nauli, Sibolga, Indonesia	[13]
Rohanixalus punctatus	(Wilkinson, Win, Thin, Lwin, Shein, and Tun, 2003)	–	Southwestern foothills of Rakhine Yoma, Myanmar	[14]
Rohanixalus senapatiensis	(Mathew and Sen, 2009)	Senapti's Bubble-nest Frog	northeastern India	[15]
Rohanixalus shyamrupus	(Chanda and Ghosh, 1989)	Hornbill Bubble-nest Frog	Arunachal Pradesh, India	[16]
Rohanixalus vittatus	(Boulenger, 1887)	Striped Bubble-nest frog	Myanmar, Thailand, and the Andaman Islands in India; records from elsewhere may be undescribed species	[17]