Raorchestes echinatus

Raorchestes echinatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Rhacophoridae
Subfamilia: Rhacophorinae
Genus: Raorchestes
Species: Raorchestes echinatus

Name

Raorchestes echinatus Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu & Shanker, 2014: 468

• Holotype: ZSI/WGRC/V/A/871 (CESF1412), adult ♂, collected by S.P. Vijayakumar and K.P. Dinesh in September 2011.
• Type locality: “a grassland site (13.4228 N, 75.7695 E), Baba Budan Massif, Western Ghats, Peninsular India”.

References

Primary references

• Vijayakumar, S.P., Dinesh, K.P., Prabhu, M.V. & Shanker, K. 2014. Lineage delimitation and description of nine new species of bush frogs (Anura: Raorchestes, Rhacophoridae) from the Western Ghats Escarpment. Zootaxa 3893(4): 451–488. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3893.4.1 Reference page.