Endangered
Raorchestes signatus
Raorchestes signatus
Raorchestes signatus is a frog in the family Rhacophoridae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
This arboreal frog has been observed in montane evergreen forests, shola forests, patches of forest, and occasionally towns, grasslands, and tea plantations.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the Western Ghats, India. The IUCN classifies this frog as vulnerable to extinction because of its smallish range and because of ongoing habitat degradation. It suffers from deforestation associated with logging and agriculture.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Like other frogs in Raorchestes, this frog breeds through direct development with no free-swimming tadpole stage.
In crisis
Scientists have observed some deformed individuals and speculate that it could be caused by overexposure to ultraviolet light. Scientists cite climate change as another threat to this species.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Raorchestes signatus 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 signatus, Wikidata item Q28061820. 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.
