Hyla felixarabica Gvozdík, Kotlík & Moravec, 2010
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Open encyclopedia reference
Hyla felixarabica, the Arabian tree frog, is a frog in the family Hylidae, endemic to the Middle East. It has been observed in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon.
Scientists speculate that there are two separate groups of Arabian tree frogs—one in the hills of Yemen and the Asir Mountains of Saudi Arabia, and another in Syria, Israel and the hills of Jordan.
Previously, researchers thought that this separation was conspecific to the Middle East tree frog (Hyla savignyi), but it is not; now, it is believed that the Arabian tree frog separated from the Middle East tree frog population some 8.4 million years ago, around when the Dead Sea Rift formed.
Wikipedia contributors, Hyla felixarabica; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T16:22:26.896730+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Hyla felixarabica Gvozdík, Kotlík & Moravec, 2010
- Name authority
- Gvozdík, Kotlík & Moravec, 2010
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Amphibia
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Hylidae
- Genus
- Hyla
- Extinction status
- Recorded extant
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- megaclassTetrapoda
- classAmphibia
- orderAnura
- familyHylidae Rafinesque, 1815
- genusHyla Laurenti, 1768
- speciesHyla felixarabica Gvozdík, Kotlík & Moravec, 2010
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Hyla. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Hyla carthaginiensis Dufresnes, Beddek, Skorinov, Fumagalli, Perrin, Crochet & Litvinchuk, 2019 | HylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hyla chinensis Günther, 1858 | HylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hyla meridionalis Boettger, 1874 | HylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hyla molleri Bedriaga, 1889 | HylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hyla simplex Boettger, 1901 | HylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hyla tsinlingensis Liu & Hu in Hu, Zhao & Liu, 1966 | HylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hyla zhaopingensis Tang & Zhang, 1984 | HylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hyla sarda (De Betta, 1853) | HylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hyla orientalis Bedriaga, 1890 | HylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hyla sanchiangensis Pope, 1929 | HylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hyla dabieshanensis C.-W. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Y.-F. Cai, L. Yu, D.-P. Pang, Q.-Y. Jiang, J. Ding, D. Gong et al., 2025 | HylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hyla annectans (Jerdon, 1870) | HylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=1098492 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:3NCTW. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.