Raorchestes andersoni

species of Amphibia

Anderson's bubble-nest frog, Anderson's bush frog, tublercled small tree frog, or tuberculate shrub frog (Raorchestes andersoni) is a frog. It lives in Bangladesh, Tibet, northeastern India, Bhutan, and China's Yunnan Province. Scientists think it may live in Myanmar too. People have seen it between 0 and 2006 meters above sea level.[2][3][1]

Raorchestes andersoni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Rhacophoridae
Genus: Raorchestes
Species:
R. andersoni
Binomial name
Raorchestes andersoni
(Ahl, 1927)
Synonyms[2]
  • Ixalus tuberculatus Anderson, 1879
  • Rhacophorus andersoni Ahl, 1927
  • Rhacophorus (Philautus) andersoni Ahl, 1931
  • Philautus tuberculatus Bourret, 1942
  • Philautus andersonii Bourret, 1942
  • Rhacophorus (Philautus) andersoni Bourret, 1942
  • Philautus andersoni Bourret, 1942
  • Philautus (Philautus) tuberculatus Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001
  • Aquixalus tuberculatus Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009
  • Pseudophilautus andersoni Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009
  • Liuixalus tuberculatus Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012
  • Theloderma (Theloderma) andersoni Poyarkov, Orlov, Moiseeva, Pawangkhanant, Ruangsuwan, Vassilieva, Galoyan, Nguyen, and Gogoleva, 2015
  • Theloderma tuberculatus Hou, Yu, Chen, Liao, Zhang, Chen, Li, and Orlov, 2017
  • Raorchestes andersoni Chen, Prendini, Wu, Zhang, Suwannapoom, Chen, Jin, Lemmon, Lemmon, Stuart, Raxworthy, Murphy, Yuan, and Che, 2020

This frog lives in trees near the edges or forests and in wetlands. It lays eggs in bodies of water that dry up for part of the year. The tadpoles swim in the water. Scientists do not know if this frog can live in places that human beings have changed.[1]

Scientists believe this frog is not in danger of dying out because it lives in such a large place. Scientists believe people cutting down its forests may put this frog in danger. One of the places the frog lives is a protected park.[1]

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2022). "Anderson's Bubble-nest Frog: Raorchestes andersoni". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1. p. e.T58815A63850615. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T58815A63850615.en. 58815. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Raorchestes andersoni (Ahl, 1927)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
  3. "Raorchestes andersoni (Ahl, 1927)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved August 7, 2023.