Philautus travancoricus

Appearance

R. Travancoricus is a small frog, males measuring 22–25 mm (0.87–0.98 in) in snout-vent length and the single measured female 30 mm (1.2 in). Its back is light-greyish red to brown with prominent brown broad lines alternating with thin faint lines. It has a yellowish brown iris.

Range and habitat

This frog has been observed perched on shrubs near or between plantations, such as tea plantations and in some tropical evergreen forests and vayal habitats. The species is endemic to the southern Western Ghats, India.

This frog's range includes a protected park, where an estimated half the population is believed to live: Periyar Tiger Reserve.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Breeding

Philautus travancoricus, variously known as the Travancore bushfrog, Travancore bubble-nest frog, or Travancore tree frog, is a frog in the family Rhacophoridae.

In crisis

The IUCN classifies this frog as endangered because of its small range, that is heavily fragmented and subject to ongoing degradation. Scientists cite climate change as another threat: Because this species lives high in the hills, it cannot readily migrate to colder habitats.

Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.

Philautus travancoricus 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 Philautus travancoricus, Wikidata item Q2703190. 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.