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

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

Raorchestes indigo Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu, and Shanker, 2014, Zootaxa, 3893: 475. Holotype: ZSI/WGRC/V/A/877, by original designation. Type locality: "a stunted forest site (13.1333 N, 75.2704 E), Kudremukh Massif (...), [Karnataka,] Western Ghats, Peninsular India".  

English Names

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

Distribution

High elevation (>1700 m) stunted forests around the highest peak in the Kudremukh Massif, Karnataka, India. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

Not assigned to species group by Garg, Suyesh, Das, Bee, and Biju, 2021, PeerJ, 9 (e10791): 1–78. 

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