Representation of a flying frog (belonging to the Rhacophoridae family) by Alfred Russel Wallace. With the term "flying frogs" or "flying rabbits" there are generically many species of frogs, mostly unrelated to each other, that have evolved the ability to plan for short stretches due to the presence of flaps between the fingers or between the fingers legs. These are mostly arboric species, for which adaptation to "flight" has proved to be a consequence of tree life, which has allowed them to move faster from one branch to another and to escape more easily to predators. It is estimated that there are more than 3,000 different species of flying frogs, including two distinct families: Hylidae, endemic of the American continent, and particularly of rainforests of South America, and Rhacophoridae, endemic of Asia, particularly in the monsoon jungles of South East Asia. Sometimes, with the term frogs, we refer mainly to the members of the latter, the first to be observed and described and counting the largest number of members. Both families also include many non-flying "arboric species".
The earliest evidence of flying frogs was reported by naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who observed some specimens in the forests of Malaysia. The species he observed, Rhacophorus nigropalmatus, took on him the common name of "Wallace Frog". Other well-known species of flying frogs are: Notemodify wikitesto
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