Endangered
Raorchestes luteolus
Philautus neelanethrus
Raorchestes luteolus, also called Blue-eyed bush frog, is a frog in the family Rhacophoridae (order Anura) — Philautus neelanethrus, recorded as Endangered and tied to India.
Appearance
Raorchestes luteolus is a small frog, males measuring 24–29 mm (0.94–1.14 in) in snout-vent length. The dominant colour form is yellowish brown with light-brownish lines or light-yellowish with discontinuous light-brown lines, but some individuals may be almost golden yellow with only faint spots. The iris is light brown encircled with a bluish green outer ring.
The distinguishing characters are its medium size (mean adult male snout-vent length 26.8 mm), pointed snout, rounded canthus, yellow or yellowish brown dorsum with dark brown spots and faint discontinuous lines, and loreal and golden yellow or yellowish brown tympanic regions.
Range and habitat
Raorchestes luteolus are most commonly found in disturbed habitats, near coffee plantations adjacent to primary forests and waysides. In Sharavathi it was also found from Myristica swamps. It is endemic to the Western Ghats, India, where it is only known from the state of Karnataka.
GBIF currently lists 1 occurrence point. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Calling males and egg sites define most frog field work. A species known from one ridge is as narrow as it sounds.
Eggs and damp skin make amphibians quick to vanish from a drained wetland or a forest stripped of litter.
In crisis
Many of the known populations are from the Kodagu district, known also by its anglicised former name of Coorg—hence the common name.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Raorchestes luteolus is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Raorchestes luteolus, Wikidata item Q4662524 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
