Raorchestes hillisi Jiang Ren, Guo, Wang and Li, 2020

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

Raorchestes hillisi Jiang Ren, Guo, Wang and Li in Jiang, Ren, Wang, Guo, Wang, Liu, Jiang, and Li, 2020, Asian Herpetol. Res., 11: 271. Holotype: CIB 116329, by original designation. Type locality: "Xiding (21.935607°N, 100.149527°E, altitude 1719 m), Menghai, Yunnan, China".  

English Names

Hillis's Bush Frog (original pubication). 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Xiding, 21.935607°N, 100.149527°E, altitude 1719 m, Menghai, Yunnan, China). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

The sister taxon of Raorchestes gryllus + Raorchestes lonchuanensisi and previously confused with Raorchestes menglaensis, and to a lesser degree, Raorchestes parvulus, according to the original publication. 

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