Amolops

Amolops formosus

The Cascades frogs ( Amolops ) form an Headquartered in southeastern Asia genus within the family of the Real frogs ( Ranidae ). We distinguish about 40 species that are distributed from northern India through Nepal, western and southern China to Malaysia ( among other things, with the island of Borneo).

Cascades frogs are considered small to medium in size (up to about eight inches ) and characterized agile. The skin of the top is often granulated to slightly warty. Between the toes are well defined webbed. The frogs are adapted to a lifestyle of fast-flowing streams and rivers, waterfalls and on the submerged rocks. Their eggs they attach firmly into small groups to stones on the river bottom. The tadpoles have a large sucking disk on the foot and abdominal region, to avoid being drifted in torrential flow. The adults of some species, as the Lolokou cascade frog ( Amolops loloensis ), have broadened adhesive discs on the finger and toe ends - like tree frogs, but with which the species is not closely related. It is a convergent evolution and evolutionary adaptation.

One among the amphibians and other vertebrates (excluding various mammals) probably unique development is the understanding of ultrasound, as it was demonstrated in the rare, southeast China's kind Amolops tormotus. Probably the partner determination thundering waterfalls is better than with lower- mating calls. The frogs produce sounds at frequencies up to 34 kilohertz. With the help of their concave eardrums can the corresponding sounds of other individuals perceive. According to recent studies, the named species is, however, now assigned to a new genus and performed under the name Odorrana tormota.

Species

• Amolops afghanus ( Günther, 1858)
• Amolops akhaorum Stuart Bain, Phimmachak, and Spence, 2010
• Amolops aniqiaoensis Dong, Rao, and Lü, 2005
• Amolops assamensis Sengupta, Hussain Choudhury, Gogoi, Ahmed, and Choudhury, 2008
• Amolops bellulus Liu, Yang, Ferraris, and Matsui, 2000
• Amolops caelumnoctis Rao and Wilkinson, 2007
• Amolops chakrataensis Ray, 1992
• Amolops chunganensis (Pope, 1929)
• Amolops compotrix ( Bain, Stuart, and Orlov, 2006)
• Amolops cremnobatus Inger and Kottelat, 1998
• Amolops cucae ( Bain, Stuart, and Orlov, 2006)
• Amolops daiyunensis ( Liu and Hu, 1975)
• Amolops daorum ( Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003)
• Amolops formosus ( Günther, 1876)
• Amolops Gerbillus ( Annandale, 1912)
• Amolops granulosus ( Liu and Hu, 1961)
• Amolops hainanensis ( Boulenger, 1900)
• Amolops Himalayanus ( Boulenger, 1888)
• Amolops indoburmanensis Dever, Fuiten, Konu, and Wilkinson, 2012
• Amolops iriodes ( Bain and Nguyen, 2004)
• Amolops jaunsari Ray, 1992
• Amolops jinjiangensis Su, Yang, and Li, 1986
• Amolops kangtingensis ( Liu, 1950)
• Amolops kaulbacki (Smith, 1940)
• Amolops kohimaensis Biju, Mahony, and Kamei, 2010
• Amolops larutensis ( Boulenger, 1899)
• Amolops liangshanensis ( Wu and Zhao, 1984)
• Amolops lifanensis ( Liu, 1945)
• Amolops loloensis ( Liu, 1950)
• Amolops longimanus ( Andersson, 1939)
• Amolops mantzorum (David, 1872)
• Amolops marmoratus ( Blyth, 1855)
• Amolops medogensis Li and Rao, 2005
• Amolops mengyangensis Wu and Tian, 1995
• Amolops minutus Orlov and Ho, 2007
• Amolops monticola ( Anderson, 1871)
• Amolops nidorbellus Biju, Mahony, and Kamei, 2010
• Amolops panhai Matsui and Nabhitabhata, 2006
• Amolops ricketti ( Boulenger, 1899)
• Amolops spinapectoralis Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999
• Amolops splendissimus Orlov and Ho, 2007
• Amolops torrentis (Smith, 1923)
• Amolops viridimaculatus ( Jiang, 1983)
• Amolops vitreous ( Bain, Stuart, and Orlov, 2006)
• Amolops wuyiensis ( Liu and Hu, 1975)