Raorchestes drutaahu, the fast-calling shrub frog, is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to in India. Scientists have observed 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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This frog has been observed in shola and in the grassy places nearby. The frogs perch on shrubs frogs .5 to 1.4 meters above the ground. They have also been observed on tea plantations. Like other frogs in Raorchestes, this frog breeds through direct development with no free-swimming tadpole stage.[1]
This frog may be threatened by deforestation and habitat fragmentation associated with tea plantations and may suffer from widespread pesticide use.[1]
Original description
edit- 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. PMC 7936570. PMID 33717674. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
References
edit- ^ a b c d IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. (2023). "Raorchestes drutaahu". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2023: e.T197945629A197945789. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T197945629A197945789.en.
- ^ 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.
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