Raorchestes kakachi Seshadri, Gururaja, and Aravind, 2012

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Raorchestes > Species: Raorchestes kakachi

Raorchestes kakachi Seshadri, Gururaja, and Aravind, 2012, Zootaxa, 3410: 21. Holotype: ZSI/WGRC V/A 857, by original designation. Type locality: "on shrubs at 2 m height from Kakachi, near a stream . . . (8.549167° N latitude and 77. 385833° E longitude, 1285 m amsl)", Tamil Nadu, India. .″

English Names

Kakachi Shrub Frog (original publication; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 14).

Distribution

Known only from high elevations in the Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve and adjacent Kakahi Tea Estate in Tamil Nadu and presumably into adjacent Kerala, Western Ghats, southern India.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

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