Raorchestes drutaahu
species of amphibian
The fast-calling shrub frog (Raorchestes drutaahu) is a frog. It lives in India. Scientists saw this frog in Kodaikanal in the Western Ghat mountains, between 1000 and 1450 meters above sea level.[2][3][1]
| Raorchestes drutaahu | |
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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. drutaahu
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| Binomial name | |
| Raorchestes drutaahu Garg, Suyesh, Das, Bee, and Biju, 2021
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People have seen this frog in special forests called shola forests and in the grassy places just outside the forests. They saw the frogs .5 to 1.4 meters above the ground. People have also see them in tea farms. Like other frogs in Raorchestes, this frog hatches out of its egg as a small frog and never swims as a tadpoles.[1]
Scientists think that humans cutting down the forests to make tea farms could be bad for this frog and that chemicals meant to kill pests could kill the frog.[1]
First paper
change- Garg S; Suyesh R; Das S; Bee MA; Biju SD (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 August 26, 2023.
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References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2023). "Fast-calling Shrub Frog: Leptomantis bimaculatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2023: e.T197945629A197945789. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T197945629A197945789.en. Retrieved March 7, 2024.
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. "Raorchestes drutaahu 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 August 26, 2023.
- ↑ "Raorchestes drutaahu (Biju and Bossuyt, 2005)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
