Whipping Frogs
Taruga
Taruga is a genus of frogs endemic to Sri Lanka. They are the only foam-nesting tree frogs in the Old World Tree frog family, Rhacophoridae.
Genus Taruga was previously assigned to the genus Polypedates. As presently understood, Taruga comprises three named species: T. fastigo, T. eques and T. longinasus. Hence two genera of foam-nesting rhacophorid tree frogs are present in Sri Lanka: (1) Polypedates, with many species in India and Asia but just two in Sri Lanka (P. maculatus— widely distributed in South Asia; and P. cruciger— endemic to Sri Lanka, albeit widely distributed); and (2) Taruga, the Sri Lankan endemic forms, whose three constituent species (T. eques, T. fastigo and T. longinasus) each have restricted distributions mostly in the forested highlands.
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species
Saddled Tree frog
speciesTaruga eques
Sharp-snout Saddled Tree Frog
speciesTaruga longinasus
Rakwana Whipping Frog
speciesTaruga fastigo
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 71009.