What is Polypedates?
{{automatic taxobox | image = Polyp leucom M 050408 041 ipb.jpg | image_caption = ''[[Polypedates leucomystax]]'' | taxon = Polypedates | authority = [[Johann Jakob von Tschudi|Tschudi]], 1838 | type_species = ''[[Polypedates leucomystax|Hyla leucomystax]]'' | type_species_authority = Gravenhorst, 1829 | diversity = 26 species (see [[#Species|text]]) }} '''''Polypedates''''' is a [[genus]] of [[frog]]s in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Rhacophoridae]], [[subfamily]] [[Rhacophorinae]]. People call them '''whipping frogs''' in English. They live in eastern and southern Asia.<ref name=frost/> Scientists have disagreed about whether these frogs should be called ''Polypedates'' or ''[[Rhacophorus]]''. [[Molecular phylogenetics|molecular phylogenetic]] studies show that they are two different groups of frogs and not the same group. ''Polypedates'' and ''[[Taruga]]'' are considered to be the [[sister taxon]] of ''[[Feihyla]]'' and ''[[Rhacophorus]]''.<ref name=frost/><ref name=LiEtAl>{{Cite journal| last = Li| first = Jiatang| author2 = Dingqi Rao| author3 = Robert W. Murphy| author4 = Yaping Zhang| year = 2011| title = The systematic status of rhacophorid frogs| journal = Asian Herpetological Research| volume = 2| pages = 1–11| doi = 10.3724/SP.J.1245.2011.00001| url = http://210.75.237.14/bitstream/351003/23370/1/2011e0121z.pdf| access-date = 2013-11-20| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131203064057/http://210.75.237.14/bitstream/351003/23370/1/2011e0121z.pdf| archive-date = 2013-12-03| url-status = dead}}</ref> ==Species== These species are in the genus ''Polypedates'', and scientists find more often:<ref name=frost>{{cite web |url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Polypedates |title=''Polypedates'' Tschudi, 1838 |author=Frost, Darrel R. |year=2014 |work=Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |access-date=9 December 2014}}</ref> * ''[[Polypedates assamensis]]'' <small>M