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

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

Raorchestes crustai Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju, Radhakrishnan, Palot, and Kalesh, 2011, Biosystematica, 5: 30. Holotype: ZSI/WGRC V/A/847, by original designation. Type locality: "amidst the tree bark from Bonacaud estate (08° 40′ N; 77° 11′ E; Alt. 600m. a.s.l), Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala, India".

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality and nearby areas in Bonacaud Estate, Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala, India, in the Western Ghats at 600 m elevation.

Comment

 A brief characterization, photograph, and dot map provided by Subramanian, Dinesh, and Radhakrishnan, 2013, Atlas of Endemic Amph. W. Ghats: 135.

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