Raorchestes aureus Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu, and Shanker, 2014

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

Raorchestes aureus Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu, and Shanker, 2014, Zootaxa, 3893: 464 Holotype: ZSI/WGRC/V/A/867, by original designation. Type locality: "a high elevation site (10.9452 N, 76.6446 E) in Elivalmalai Massif (...), [borderland of Kerala and Tamil Nadu,] Western Ghats, Peninsular India". 

English Names

Elivalmalai Bush Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 13).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality at 1524 m elevation on the border of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, in the Elivai Malai Massif of the Western Ghats of southern India. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

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