Dryophytes immaculatus, the Chinese immaculate treefrog, is a species of frog in the family Hylidae endemic to China. The natural habitat of the species has been generally transformed into rice fields and it is threatened by habitat loss.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Genus: | Dryophytes |
| Species: | D. immaculatus
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| Dryophytes immaculatus (Boettger, 1888)
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The species has very strongly declined in population size[2] of the last decades, similarly to the sister species Dryophytes suweonensis and Dryophytes flaviventris.[2]
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Hyla suweonensis.
- ^ Xie, F. (2017). "Dryophytes immaculatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T55512A112714297. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T55512A112714297.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ a b Borzée, A; Messenger, K; Chae, S; Andersen, D; Groffen, J; Kim, Y; An, J; Othman, S; Ri, K; Nam, T; Bae, Y; Ren, J; Li, J; Chuang, M; Yi, Y; Shin, Y; Kwon, S; Jang, Y; Min, N (2020). "Yellow sea mediated segregation between North East Asian Dryophytes species". PLOS ONE. 15 (6): e0234299. Bibcode:2020PLoSO..1534299B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0234299. PMC 7314424. PMID 32579561.
Further reading
edit- Dufresnes, C.; Litvinchuk, S.; Borzée, A.; Jang, Y.; Li, J-T.; Miura, I.; Perrin, N.; Stöck, M. (2016). "Phylogeography reveals an ancient cryptic radiation in East-Asian tree frogs (Hyla japonica group) and complex relationships between continental and island lineages". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16 (1): 253. doi:10.1186/s12862-016-0814-x. PMC 5121986. PMID 27884104.