Raorchestes flaviventris

Raorchestes flaviventris is a species of arboreal, nocturnal, frog of the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to the Western Ghats, South India. Its common name is yellow-bellied bush frog.[2]

Illustration that accompanied the original species description of "Ixalus flaviventris" by George Albert Boulenger, published in the Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia s. Ecaudata in the collection of the British Museum in 1882.[3][2]

Raorchestes flaviventris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Rhacophoridae
Genus: Raorchestes
Species:
R. flaviventris
Binomial name
Raorchestes flaviventris
(Boulenger, 1882)[2]
Synonyms

Ixalus flaviventris Boulenger, 1882[3]
Philautus flaviventris (Boulenger, 1882)
Pseudophilautus flaviventris (Boulenger, 1882)
Raorchestes emeraldi Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu, and Shanker, 2014

Its natural habitats are tropical moist montane forests.[1] It is endemic to the Anaimalai hills, occurring in the Valparai area and also in Munnar, in Tamil Nadu and Kerala states of South India. This species may also be found in Palni hills but this requires confirmation.

References
  1. Biju, S.D.; Dutta, S.; Vasudevan, K.; Vijayakumar, S.P.; Srinivasulu, C. (2004). "Raorchestes flaviventris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004: e.T58843A11848706. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T58843A11848706.en.
  2. Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Raorchestes flaviventris (Boulenger, 1882)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  3. Boulenger, George Albert (1882). Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia s. Ecaudata in the collection of the British Museum (2 ed.). London: British Museum (Natural History). pp. 113–144. (Illustration: Plate XII)

Further reading
  • Abraham, R. K., A. Zachariah, and V. P. Cyriac. 2015. A reappraisal of the rhacophorid bush frog Raorchestes flaviventris (Boulenger, 1882), with an evaluation of the taxonomic status of R. emeraldi Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu and Shankar, 2014. Zootaxa 4048: 90–100.
  • Bossuyt, F., and A. Dubois. 2001. A review of the frog genus Philautus Gistel, 1848 (Amphibia, Anura, Ranidae, Rhacophorinae). Zeylanica. Colombo 6: 1–112.
  • Vijayakumar, S. P., K. P. Dinesh, M. V. Prabhu, and K. Shanker. 2014. Lineage delimitation and description of nine new species of bush frogs (Anura: Raorchestes, Rhacophoridae) from the Western Ghats Escarpment . Zootaxa 3893: 451–488.


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