Raorchestes keirasabinae

Raorchestes keirasabinae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Rhacophoridae
Genus: Raorchestes
Species:
R. keirasabinae
Binomial name
Raorchestes keirasabinae
Garg, Suyesh, Das, Bee, and Biju, 2021

Keira's shrub frog (Roarchestes keirasabinae) is a frog. It lives in India. Scientists have seen it in many parts of the Western Ghat mountains 100 to 1,000 meters above sea level.[2][3][4][1]

This frog lives in forests, high in where the branches come together like a roof. It has been seen in a few forests that were cut down and are growing back. Scientists think this frog hatches out of its egg as a small frog like other frogs in Raorchestes.[1]

Scientists think this frog is at some risk of dying out because, even though it lives in a large place, that place is broken up into smaller places and the frogs cannot move between them easily. This frog lives in forests, and people have built farms in between.[1]

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2023). "Keira's Shrub Frog: Raorchestes keirasabinae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2023: e.T197945955A197945974. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T197945955A197945974.en. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
  2. ↑ Frost, Darrel R. "Raorchestes keirasabinae Garg, Suyesh, Das, Bee, and Biju, 2021". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved September 18, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Raorchestes keirasabinae Garg, Suyesh, Das, Bee, and Biju, 2021". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. June 1, 2021. Retrieved September 18, 2023.
  4. ↑ Garg S; Suyesh R; Das S; Bee MA; Biju SD (March 3, 2021). "An integrative approach to infer systematic relationships and define species groups in the shrub frog genus Raorchestes, with description of five new species from the Western Ghats, India". PeerJ (Abstract). 9: e10791. doi:10.7717/peerj.10791. PMID 33717674. Retrieved September 18, 2023.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)