What is Raorchestes sanjappai?
{{italictitle}} {{Speciesbox | image = | status =DD | status_ref =<ref name=IUCN /> | status_system = IUCN3.1 | taxon = Raorchestes sanjappai | authority =Garg, Suyesh, Das, Bee & Biju, 2021 | range_map = |synonyms= | synonyms_ref=<ref name=AMNH /> }} The '''Periya bush frog''' or '''Sanjappa's bush frog''' (''Raorchestes sanjappai'') is a [[frog]]. It lives in [[India]]. Scientists saw it in Periya in the [[Western Ghat]] mountains, 750 meters above sea level.<ref name=AMNH>{{BioRef|ASW6 |title=''Raorchestes sanjappai'' Garg, Suyesh, Das, Bee & Biju, 2021 |url=https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Raorchestes/Raorchestes-sanjappai |access-date=August 27, 2023}}</ref><ref name=Amph>{{BioRef|amphibiaweb |title= ''Raorchestes sanjappai'' Garg, Suyesh, Das, Bee & Biju, 2021 |author1= |editor1= |date= |language= |url=https://amphibiaweb.org/species/9333 |access-date=August 27, 2023}}</ref><ref name=IUCN>{{cite IUCN |title= Sanjappa's Shrub Frog: ''Raorchestes sanjappai'' |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/197945982/197945999 |page=e.T197945982A197945999 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T197945982A197945999.en |id=197945982 |year=2023 |author1=IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group |accessdate=April 20, 2024}}</ref><ref name=Des>{{cite journal|author1=Garg S|author2= Suyesh R|author3= Das S|author4= Bee MA|author5= Biju SD|year= 2021|title= An integrative approach to infer systematic relationships and define species groups in the shrub frog genus Raorchestes, with description of five new species from the Western Ghats, India. |journal=PeerJ |page=9:e10791|type=Abstract| PMID=33717674|accessdate=April 22, 2024|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33717674/|doi=10.7717/peerj.10791}}</ref> Scientists do not know much about this frog. It looks like other frogs in ''Raorchestes''. Like other frogs in ''Raorchestes'', it [[direct development|hatches out of its egg as a small frog]] and never swims as a tadpole.<ref name=IUCN /> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Frogs of