Suspecting that the frogs belonged to an undiscovered species, Professor Lu Kuang-yang named them Feits'ui tree frogs and sent a specimen to the French National Museum of Natural Sciences for further investigation.
教授呂光洋懷疑它是從未被人類發現的新品種，於是將之命名為「翡翠樹蛙」，然後又將標本寄到法國國家自然科學博物館請求進一步鑑定。