Vampire Flying Frog

Vampire Flying Frog
Rhacophorus vampyrus

This frog is named after the black ‘fangs’ of its tadpoles, which grow up in water-filled tree-holes. As food is scarce there, the female feeds her tadpoles her unfertilised eggs, which they eat using their fangs. This species is only known from high-elevation cloud-forests of southern Vietnam and is threatened by habitat loss.

Distribution: southern Vietnam
Conservation status: Endangered
Evolutionary distinctiveness: not assessed