Raorchestes chotta

Range and habitat

Raorchestes chotta, also known as the small bushfrog or small bush frog, is a frog found only in Ponmudi in the Western Ghats of Kerala, India. Scientists classify this frog as endangered because of its small, fragmented range, that is still subject to considerable degradation. Human beings convert the forest to tea and areca nut plantations, and scientists suspect infrastructure from tourism may also cause problems.

Although the frog's range includes one park, Ponmudi Reserve Forest, the management in this forest is not the best.

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

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

Raorchestes chotta 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 chotta, Wikidata item Q3419067. 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.