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title: "Zwartvoetboomkikker"
description: "Rhacophorus nigropalmatus — Amfibieën. Wallace's flying frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus), also known as the gliding frog or the Abah River flying frog, is a moss frog found at least from the Malay Peninsula into western Indonesia and southern Thailand, and is present in Borneo and Sumatra."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/wallace-s-flying-frog
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Zwartvoetboomkikker

> Rhacophorus nigropalmatus — Amfibieën. Wallace's flying frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus), also known as the gliding frog or the Abah River flying frog, is a moss frog found at least from the Malay Peninsula into western Indonesia and southern Thailand, and is present in Borneo and Sumatra.

- Scientific name: *Rhacophorus nigropalmatus*
- Category: `amphibians` (Amfibieën)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos), `jungle` (Jungle)
- iNaturalist observations: 520
- Wikidata: [Q1190196](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1190196)
- iNaturalist taxon: [26490](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/26490)

## Names

- en: Wallace's Flying Frog
- de: Wallace-Flugfrosch
- fr: Grenouille volante de Wallace
- nl: Zwartvoetboomkikker
- pt: Sapo-voador-de-wallace
- pl: Nogolotka czarnostopa

## Countries with the most observations

MY (318), TH (87), ID (38)

## Summary

Wallace's flying frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus), also known as the gliding frog or the Abah River flying frog, is a moss frog found at least from the Malay Peninsula into western Indonesia and southern Thailand, and is present in Borneo and Sumatra. It is named for the biologist, Alfred R. Wallace, who collected the first known specimen.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace%27s_flying_frog

## Photo

![Zwartvoetboomkikker](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/wallace-s-flying-frog/medium.jpg)

Photo: Лариса Артемьева · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/339266370

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/wallace-s-flying-frog?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).