Classification:

• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Amphibia
• Order: Anura
• Genus: Rhacophorus

Comments:

1. 1. Rhacophorus is commonly known as, flying-frog. Females are larger than male.
2. 2. Body is slender and divided into head and trunk.
3. 3. Head is broad and nearly conical bearing eyes with eyelids, nostrils and tympanum.
4. 4.Limbs are long and thin with large feet. Web develops between the digits of all the four feet.Digits of all the four feet bear rounded adhesive pads or discs at tips.
5. 5.It lives on trees. Usually large webbed feet are used as palms in gliding from branch to branch or tree to tree and can leap 6-10 meters in the air.
6. 6. It also exhibits parental care by depositing eggs in the nests near standing pond water.

Source:

1. Practical Zoology Vertebrates by S.S.Lal. 2. A Manual of Practical Zoology Chordates by Dr. P.S. Verma.