Raorchestes indigo
| Raorchestes indigo | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Rhacophoridae |
| Genus: | Raorchestes |
| Species: | R. indigo
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| Binomial name | |
| Raorchestes indigo Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu, and Shanker, 2014
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Roarchestes indigo is a frog. It lives in India, high in the mountains where small trees grow.[2][3] Scientists have seen it between 1400 and 1700 meters above sea level.[1]
This frog lives in forests high in the mountains where the trees do not grow tall. It lives on the ground near the dead leaves. People have not seen this frog in grasslands. Scientists think this frog hatches out of its egg as a small frog, like other frogs in Raorchestes do.[1]
Scientists say this frog is at some risk of dying out because it only lives in one place: Kudremukh National Park. They also say that, if climate change makes the places where the frog lives too dry, then it could be in much danger of dying.[1]
Scientists think the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis could kill this frog through the disease chytridiomycosis.[1]
First paper
[change | change source]- Vijayakumar SP; Dinesh KP; Prabhu MV; Shanker K (2014). "Lineage delimitation and description of nine new species of bush frogs (Anura: Raochestes, Rhacophoridae) from the Western Ghats escarpment". Zootaxa. 3893: 451–488.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2022). "Raorchestes indigo". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T73787889A73787915. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T73787889A73787915.en. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. "Raorchestes indigo Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu, and Shanker, 2014". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved September 23, 2023.
- ↑ "Raorchestes indigo Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu, and Shanker, 2014". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved September 23, 2023.
