Endangered
Raorchestes sushili
Raorchestes sushili
Sushil's bushfrog is a critically endangered frog found only in the Andiparai Shola in the municipality of Valparai in Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu, India.
Appearance
This frog has been observed in evergreen forests between 1000 and 1600 meters above sea level.
Range and habitat
Sushil's bushfrog is a critically endangered frog found only in the Andiparai Shola in the municipality of Valparai in Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu, India. This frog has not bene found in disturbed habitats, per a 2023 IUCN report. The IUCN classifies this frog as endangered because of its small, fragmented range, that is subject to ongoing degradation.
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.
In crisis
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Raorchestes sushili 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 sushili, Wikidata item Q3419090. 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.
