A rhacophorid frog from Borneo is divergent genetically and morphologically from Javanese R. reinwardtii, with which it was formerly confused, and is recognized as a distinct species. The frog differs from R. reinwardtii by an immaculate green dorsum and a black posterior thigh surface, which is studded with sky blue spots in the female. Because the frog is also divergent genetically and morphologically from the other congeners recently split from R. reinwardtii, we describe it as a new species, R. borneensis.
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1 August 2013
A New Gliding Frog of the Genus Rhacophorus from Borneo
Masafumi Matsui,
Tomohiko Shimada,
Ahmad Sudin
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Current Herpetology
Vol. 32 • No. 2
August 2013
Vol. 32 • No. 2
August 2013
Borneo
MtDNA phylogeny
new species
Rhacophorus reinwardtii
taxonomy