Endangered
Raorchestes jayarami
Raorchestes jayarami
Raorchestes jayarami is a frog in the family Rhacophoridae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered and tied to India.
Appearance
Individuals of this species from the genus Raorchestes have morphs that range from plain green to variations with splotches and dots of darker greens and in some cases yellow.
Range and habitat
This frog has been observed inhabiting small patches of forest and shola in between human settlements.
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
Scientists classify this frog is endangered because of its small, heavily fragmented range. Scientists also name climate change as a threat to this species. Given that the populations live at high elevations, they cannot simply migrate north if their range should warm.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Raorchestes jayarami 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 jayarami, Wikidata item Q3419073. 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.
