Raorchestes coonoorensis
species of amphibian
The Coonoor bush frog (Raorchestes coonoorensis) is a frog. It lives in India. Scientists have seen it in exactly one place, in the Western Ghat mountains,[2][3] between 1,780 and 2083 meters above sea level.[1]
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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. coonoorensis
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| Raorchestes coonoorensis (Biju and Bossuyt, 2009)
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People have seen this frog on large farms and in forests that human beings have changed. People saw the frogs sitting on leaves 1-1.5 m over the ground. Like other frogs in Raorchestes, this frog hatches out of its egg as a small frog and is never a tadpole.
The frog is endangered because humans changed the places where it lives too much, for example to build roads and other things for paying visitors. Chemicals meant to kill pests can also kill this frog.[1]
First paper
change- Biju SD; Bossuyt F (2009). "Systematics and phylogeny of Philautus Gistel, 1848 (Anura, Rhacophoridae) in the Western Ghats of India, with descriptions of 12 new species". Zool J Linn Soc (Abstract). 155: 374–444. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2023). "Raorchestes coonoorensis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1. p. e.T186161A166115005. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T186161A166115005.en. 186161. Retrieved March 6, 2024.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Raorchestes coonoorensis (Biju and Bossuyt, 2009)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved September 1, 2023.
- ↑ "Raorchestes coonoorensis (Biju and Bossuyt, 2009)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved September 1, 2023.
