Raorchestes lechiya
Lechiyappan's bush frog or Sispara bush frog (Raorchestes lechiya) is a frog. It lives in India. Scientists have only seen it near where they first found it: 2023 meters above sea level in Silent Valley National Park.[2][3] People have seen it between 1800 and 2200 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. lechiya
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| Raorchestes lechiya Zachariah, Cyriac, Chandramohan, Ansil, Mathew, Raju, and Abraham, 2016
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Scientists found one adult male frog that was about 19.8 mm long from nose to rear end. The skin of its back was pale brown in color and it had many small spikes. There were white spots near its legs. The skin of the frog's belly was pink-white in color. The iris of the eye was the color of copper on top and dark brown on the bottom.[4] Scientists saw the frogs in the leaf litter on the forest floor and on low, woody plants.[1]
The scientists named this frog for Mr. Lechiyappan of the Mudugar tribe. He worked as a forest tracker at Silent Valley National Park and helped it become a national park.[4]
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2023). "Lechiyappan's Shrub Frog: Raorchestes lechiya". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2023: e.T113887925A113887939. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T113887925A113887939.en. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. "Raorchestes lechiya Zachariah, Cyriac, Chandramohan, Ansil, Mathew, Raju, and Abraham, 2016". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved September 13, 2023.
- ↑ "Raorchestes lechiya Zachariah, Cyriac, Chandramohan, Ansil, Mathew, Raju, and Abraham, 2016". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved September 13, 2023.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Zachariah A; Cyriac VP; Chandramohan B; Ansil BR; Mathew JK; Raiu DV; Abraham RK (2016). "Two new species of Raorchestes (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from the Silent Valley National Park in the Nilgiri Hills of the Western Ghats, India". Salamandra (Full text). 52 (2): 63–76. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
