Raorchestes thodai Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju, Radhakrishnan, Palot, and Kalesh, 2011

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

Raorchestes thodai Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju, Radhakrishnan, Palot, and Kalesh, 2011, Biosystematica, 5: 42. Holotype: ZSI/WGRC V/A/838, by original designation. Type locality: "Ooty (Udhagamandalam) town (11° 24′N; 76° 40′ E; 1980 m. a.s.l), Nilgiri district, Tamil Nadu, India".

English Names

Thoda Bush Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 14).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality: Ooty (Udhagamandalam) town (11° 24′N; 76° 40′ E; 1980 m. a.s.l), Nilgiri district, Tamil Nadu, India.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

 A brief characterization, photograph, and dot map provided by Subramanian, Dinesh, and Radhakrishnan, 2013, Atlas of Endemic Amph. W. Ghats: 157. Garg, Suyesh, Das, Bee, and Biju, 2021, PeerJ, 9 (e10791): 43–44, suggested that this nominal species may be conspecific with Raorchestes signatus

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