Raorchestes marki: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Amphibia
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Rhacophoridae
- Genus
- Raorchestes
- Species
- Raorchestes marki
- Scientific Name
- Raorchestes marki
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Raorchestes marki
The Mark's bushfrog (Raorchestes marki) is a critically endangered frog found only in the Nelliampathi Hills within the Western Ghats of Kerala, India. The species is named after Mark Wilkinson of the Natural History Museum, London.
Raorchestes marki are small, slender-bodied frogs. Males measure 21–23 mm (0.83–0.91 in) in snout–vent length and females 28–30 mm (1.1–1.2 in). The dorsum is dark grey and has a brownish concave stripe running from behind the eye.
Like other frogs in Raorchestes, this frog breeds through direct development with no free-swimming tadpole stage.
This frog is classified as critically endangered because its small range is subject to ongoing degradation associated with agriculture, tourism infrastructure, and industrialization.
...Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Raorchestes agasthyaensis
- Raorchestes akroparallagi
- Raorchestes andersoni
- Raorchestes anili
- Raorchestes annandalii
- Raorchestes archeos
- Raorchestes aureus
- Raorchestes beddomii
- Raorchestes blandus
- Raorchestes bobingeri
- Raorchestes bombayensis
- Raorchestes cangyuanensis
- Raorchestes chalazodes
- Raorchestes charius
- Raorchestes chlorosomma
- Raorchestes chotta
- Raorchestes chromasynchysi
- Raorchestes coonoorensis
- Raorchestes crustai
- Raorchestes drutaahu
- Raorchestes dubois
- Raorchestes dulongensis
- Raorchestes echinatus
- Raorchestes flaviocularis
- Raorchestes flaviventris
- Raorchestes ghatei
- Raorchestes glandulosus
- Raorchestes graminirupes
- Raorchestes griet
- Raorchestes gryllus
- Raorchestes hassanensis
- Raorchestes hillisi
- Raorchestes honnametti
- Raorchestes huanglianshan
- Raorchestes indigo
- Raorchestes jayarami
- Raorchestes johnceei
- Raorchestes kadalarensis
- Raorchestes kaikatti
- Raorchestes kakachi
- Raorchestes kakkayamensis
- Raorchestes keirasabinae
- Raorchestes kollimalai
- Raorchestes lechiya
- Raorchestes leucolatus
- Raorchestes longchuanensis
- Raorchestes luteolus
- Raorchestes manipurensis
- Raorchestes manohari
- Raorchestes marki
- Raorchestes menglaensis
- Raorchestes munnarensis
- Raorchestes nerostagona
- Raorchestes ochlandrae
- Raorchestes parvulus
- Raorchestes ponmudi
- Raorchestes primarrumpfi
- Raorchestes ravii
- Raorchestes resplendens
- Raorchestes rezakhani
- Raorchestes sahai
- Raorchestes sanctisilvaticus
- Raorchestes sanjappai
- Raorchestes shillongensis
- Raorchestes signatus
- Raorchestes silentvalley
- Raorchestes sushili
- Raorchestes theuerkaufi
- Raorchestes thodai
- Raorchestes tinniens
- Raorchestes travancoricus
- Raorchestes tuberohumerus
- Raorchestes uthamani
- Raorchestes vellikkannan
- Raorchestes yadongensis

