Gracixalus jinxiuensis

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Gracixalus jinxiuensis
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Rhacophoridae
Genus:	Gracixalus
Species:	G. jinxiuensis
Binomial name
*Gracixalus jinxiuensis* (Hu, 1978)
Synonyms
Philautus jinxiuensis Hu in Hu, Fei, and Ye, 1978 Philautus (Philautus) jinxiuensis Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001 Philautus jingxiuensis Orlov, Ho, and Nguyen, 2004 Gracixalus jinxiuensis Yu, Rao, Zhang, and Yang, 2009 Aquixalus jinxiuensis Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009 Orixalus jinxiuensis Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021

Gracixalus jinxiuensis, commonly known as the Jinxiu bubble-nest frog or Jinxiu small treefrog, is a species of shrub frog from northern Vietnam and southern China (southeastern Yunnan, northeastern Guangxi and southern Hunan). "Jinxiu" in its names refers to the Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County, where its type locality lies.^[2] This species in known from forests, montane forests, secondary growth, forest edges, and from near streams.^[1]

Cryptic species

Gracixalus jinxiuensis, as currently defined, may in fact include more than one species. Furthermore, it is possible that some records refer to other, established Gracixalus species.^[2] For instance, Gracixalus quyeti from Quảng Bình Province was formerly assigned to Gracixalus jinxiuensis.^[3]

Morphology

The male snout–vent length is 23.5 mm (0.93 in) and the female is 29 mm (1.1 in).^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2022). "Gracixalus jinxiuensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T153630916A63879420.
^ ^a ^b Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Gracixalus jinxiuensis (Hu, 1978)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
^ Ziegler, Thomas, Dao Thi Anh Tran, Truong Quang Nguyen, Ronith Gila Bina Perl, Lea Wirk, Magdalena Kulisch, Tanja Lehmann, Anna Rauhaus, Tao Thien Nguyen, Quyet Khac Le, and Thanh Ngoc Vu. 2014. New amphibian and reptile records from Ha Giang Province, northern Vietnam. Herpetology Notes, volume 7: 185-201 (2014) (published online on 16 April 2014).
^ Fei, L. (1999). Atlas of Amphibians of China (in Chinese). Zhengzhou: Henan Press of Science and Technology. p. 254. ISBN 7-5349-1835-9.

Taxon identifiers
Gracixalus jinxiuensis	Wikidata: Q10913358 Wikispecies: Gracixalus jinxiuensis AmphibiaWeb: 4421 ASW: Gracixalus-jinxiuensis BOLD: 700346 CoL: 3H5CG GBIF: 5785861 iNaturalist: 26294 ITIS: 1100916 IUCN: 58859 NCBI: 462318 Open Tree of Life: 723742
Philautus jinxiuensis	Wikidata: Q770888 ARKive: philautus-jinxiuensis CoL: 4G5H3 EoL: 332686 GBIF: 2423630 IRMNG: 10230165 ITIS: 665542 Open Tree of Life: 723742

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