Meeting Abstract
Amphibians of Southeast Asia have been shown to have high levels of cryptic diversity and the region offers a unique biogeographical area to study widespread divergent lineages. The Asian Rhacophoridae genus Polypedates has presented an ongoing and notorious systematic challenge. High levels of adaptation to local environments, phenotypic plasticity, and morphological diversity have led herpetologists to divide Polypedates into six distinct clades. Previous studies have few to no samples from Myanmar. We incorporate 60 Burmese samples to the dataset and focus specifically on the Sunda clade. We analyze the mitochondrial gene 16S rDNA and investigate the phylogenetic placement of previously unsampled Myanmar in the greater phylogeny of Polypedates.
