Endangered
Raorchestes manohari
Raorchestes manohari
Raorchestes manohari is a frog in the family Rhacophoridae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The adult frog measures about 17.57–18.06 mm in snout-vent length. The skin of the dorsum is bright yellow with brown-black spots. The flanks are lighter yellow in color.
Range and habitat
Raorchestes manohari is a frog of the genus Raorchestes found in Bonacaud in the Western Ghats of Kerala in India. Manoharan, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Kerala. Scientists observed the frog on reed plants of the species Ochlandra travancorica on plantations and in forests.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
The frog breeds by direct development in bamboo plants.
In crisis
Scientists classify this frog as endangered because of its small range.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Raorchestes manohari 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 manohari, Wikidata item Q3419081. 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.
