Raorchestes

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Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Rhacophoridae
Subfamilia: Rhacophorinae
Genus: Raorchestes
Species (76): R. agasthyaensis – R. akroparallagi – R. andersoni – R. anili – R. annandalii – R. archeos – R. aureus – R. beddomii – R. blandus – R. bobingeri – R. bombayensis – R. cangyuanensis – R. chalazodes – R. charius – R. chlorosomma – R. chotta – R. chromasynchysi – R. coonoorensis – R. crustai – R. drutaahu – R. dubois – R. dulongensis – R. echinatus – R. flaviocularis – R. flaviventris – R. ghatei – R. glandulosus – R. graminirupes – R. griet – R. gryllus – R. hekouensis – R. hassanensis – R. hillisi – R. honnametti – R. huanglianshan – R. indigo – R. jayarami – R. johnceei – R. kadalarensis – R. kaikatti – R. kakachi – R. kakkayamensis – R. keirasabinae – R. kollimalai – R. lechiya – R. leucolatus – R. longchuanensis – R. luteolus – R. malipoensis – R. manipurensis – R. manohari – R. marki – R. menglaensis – R. munnarensis – R. nerostagona – R. ochlandrae – R. parvulus – R. ponmudi – R. primarrumpfi – R. ravii – R. resplendens – R. rezakhani – R. sahai – R. sanctisilvaticus – R. sanjappai – R. shillongensis – R. signatus – R. silentvalley – R. sushili – R. theuerkaufi – R. thodai – R. tinniens – R. travancoricus – R. tuberohumerus – R. uthamani – R. vellikkannan – R. yadongensis

Name

Raorchestes Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta & Bossuyt, 2010: 1120

Type species: Ixalus glandulosus Jerdon, 1854, by original designation.

References

Primary references

Biju, S.D., Shouche, Y., Dubois, A., Dutta, S.K. & Bossuyt, F. 2010. A ground-dwelling rhacophorid frog from the highest mountain peak of the Western Ghats of India. Current Science 98(8): 1119–1125. Full article (PDF). Full article (PDF). Full article (on BioNames). Reference page.

Additional references

Zachariah, A., Dinesh, K.P., Kunhikrishnan, E., Das, S., Raju, D.V., Radhakrishnan, C., Palot, M.J. & Kalesh, S. 2011. Nine new species of frogs of the genus Raorchestes (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from southern Western Ghats, India. Biosystematica 5(1): 25–48. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Seshadri, K.S., Gururaja, K.V. & Aravind, N.A. 2012. A new species of Raorchestes (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from mid-elevation evergreen forests of the southern Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa 3410(1): 19–34. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3410.1.2 Reference page.
Padhye, A.D., Sayyed, A., Jadhav, A. & Dahanukar, N. 2013. Raorchestes ghatei, a new species of shrub frog (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 5(15): 4913–4931. DOI: 10.11609/JoTT.o3702.4913-31 Reference page.
Vijayakumar, S.P., Dinesh, K.P., Prabhu, M.V. & Shanker, K. 2014. Lineage delimitation and description of nine new species of bush frogs (Anura: Raorchestes, Rhacophoridae) from the Western Ghats Escarpment. Zootaxa 3893(4): 451–488. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3893.4.1 Reference page.
Priti, H., Sarma, R.R., Ramya, B., Sudhira, H.S., Ravikanth, G., Aravind, N.A. & Gururaja, K.V. 2016. Integrative Taxonomic Approach for Describing a New Cryptic Species of Bush Frog (Raorchestes: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from the Western Ghats, India. PLoS One 11(3): e0149382. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149382 Reference page.
Zachariah, A., Cyriac, V.P., Chandramohan, B., Ansil, B.R., Mathew, J.K., Raju, D.V. & Abraham, R.K. 2016. Two new species of Raorchestes (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from the Silent Valley National Park in the Nilgiri Hills of the Western Ghats, India. Salamandra 52(2): 63–76. PDF Reference page.
Wu, Y.-H., Suwannapoom, C., Xu, K., Chen, J.-M., Jin, J.-Q., Chen, H.-M., Murphy, R.W. & Che, J. 2019. A new species of the genus Raorchestes (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Yunnan Province, China. Zoological Research 40(6): 558–563. DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2019.066 Reference page.
Al-Razi, H., Maria, M. & Muzaffar, S.B. 2020. A new species of cryptic Bush frog (Anura, Rhacophoridae, Raorchestes) from northeastern Bangladesh. ZooKeys 927: 127–151. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.927.48733 Reference page.
Gowande, G., Ganesh, S.R. & Mirza, Z.A. 2020. A new cryptic species of bush frog (Amphibia: Anura: Raorchestes) from the Southern Eastern Ghats, India. Taprobanica 9(2): 164–173. DOI: 10.47605/tapro.v9i2.229 Reference page.
Jiang, K., Ren, J.-L., Wang, J., Guo, J.-F., Wang, Z., Liu, Y.-H., Jiang, D. & Li, J.-T. 2020. Taxonomic revision of Raorchestes menglaensis (Kou, 1990) (Amphibia: Anura), with descriptions of two new species from Yunnan, China. Asian Herpetological Research 11(4): 263–281. DOI: 10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.200018 Reference page.
Garg, S., Suyesh, R., Das, S., Bee, M.A. & Biju, S.D. 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 9: e10791. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10791 Reference page.
Wu, Y.-H., Liu, X.-L., Gao, W., Wang, Y.-F., Li, Y.-C., Zhou, W.-W., Yuan, Z.-Y. & Che, J. 2021. Description of a new species of Bush frog (Anura: Rhacophoridae: Raorchestes) from northwestern Yunnan, China. Zootaxa 4941(2): 239–258. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.2.5 Reference page.
Zhang, H., Shu, G.-C., Shu, F., Li, K., Liu, Q., Wu, Y.-Y., Dong, B.-J. & Guo, P. 2022. A new species of bush frog (Anura, Rhacophoridae, Raorchestes) from southern Xizang, China. Zootaxa 5195(2): 125–142. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5195.2.2 Reference page.
Huang, J-K., Liu, X.-L., Du, L-Y., Bernstein, J.M., Liu, S., Yang, Y., Yu, G-H. & Wu, Z-J. 2023. A new species of Bush frog (Anura, Rhacophoridae, Raorchestes) from southeastern Yunnan, China. Zookeys 1151: 47–65. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1151.95616 Reference page.
Du, L-Y., Xu, Y-H., Liu, S. & Yu, G-H. 2024. A new species of Raorchestes (Anura, Rhacophoridae) from Yunnan Province, China. ZooKeys 1192: 213–235. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1192.106013 Reference page.

Vernacular names

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