Raorchestes leucolatus
| Raorchestes leucolatus | |
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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. leucolatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Raorchestes leucolatus Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu, and Shanker, 2014
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Roarchestes leucolatus is a frog. It lives in India. Scientists have seen it near Elivalmalai Massif in the Western Ghat mountains, between 894 and 958 meters above sea level.[2][3][1]
People have seen this frog in the layer of plants below the trees in forests and on the ground in forests. Scientists think this frog hatches out of its egg as a small frog, like other frogs in Raorchestes.[1]
This frog may have suffered because human beings built dams that filled its habitat with water, but people are not building more dams there, and some of the forests are growing back. Some of the places the frog lives now are protected parks.[1]
Scientists have seen the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on other frogs in Raorchestes, so they think it could infect R. jayarami too. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis causes the fungal 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 (2023). "White Groin Bush Frog: Raorchestes leucolatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2023: e.T73787965A73787976. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T73787965A73787976.en. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. "Raorchestes leucolatus 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 20, 2023.
- ↑ "Raorchestes leucolatus Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu, and Shanker, 2014". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved September 20, 2023.
