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

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

Raorchestes theuerkaufi Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju, Radhakrishnan, Palot, and Kalesh, 2011, Biosystematica, 5: 41. Holotype: ZSI/WGRC V/A/836, by original designation. Type locality: "Kadalar tea estate (10° 07′N, 77° 01′ E, 1393 m. a.s.l) near KFDC plantation, Idduki district, Kerala, India".

English Names

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

Distribution

Known only from the type locality: Kadalar tea estate, Idduki district, Kerala, India, in the Western Ghats at 1393 m elevation.

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: 156.

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