What is Philautus?
{{Italic title}} {{automatic taxobox | name = ''Philautus'' | image = Philautus dubius.jpg | image_caption = ''[[Philautus dubius]]'' | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Philautus | authority = [[Johannes von Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel|Gistel]], 1848 | subdivision_ranks = [[Species]] | subdivision = See text }} '''''Philautus''''' is a group of '''shrub frogs'''. This [[genus|group of species]] is in the family [[Rhacophoridae]]. They live in Asia. Some frogs in this genus are now [[extinct]], meaning there are none alive now, but others live in large numbers. Scientists are not sure how [[Taxonomy (biology)|the different frogs are related to each other]] or to other frogs.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Karthikeyan Vasudevan, M. S. Chaitra & R. K. Aggarwal |year=2007 |title=Pernicious descriptions of 'new' frogs from the Western Ghats, India |journal=[[Current Science]] |volume=92 |issue=3 |pages=281–282 |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/feb102007/281.pdf }}</ref> These frogs never swim as tadpoles. They hatch out of eggs as froglets, or small frogs.<ref>{{cite journal |author=S. D. Biju |year=2003 |title=Reproductive mode in the shrub frog ''Philautus glandulosus'' (Jerdon, 1853) (Anura: Rhacophoridae) |journal=[[Current Science]] |volume=84 |issue=3 |pages=283–284 |url=http://www.iisc.ernet.in/currsci/feb102003/283.pdf }}</ref> Some frogs bury their eggs in soil. Others lay eggs on leaves.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=M. M. Bahir |author2=M. Meegaskumbura |author3=K. Manamendra-Arachchi |author4=C. J. Schneider |author5=R. Pethiyagoda |year=2005 |title=Reproduction and terrestrial direct development in Sri Lankan shrub frogs (Ranidae: Rhacophorinae: ''Philautus'') |journal=[[Raffles Bulletin of Zoology]] |volume=Suppl. 12 |pages=339–350 |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s12/s12rbz339-350.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070617204615/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s12/s12rbz339-350.pdf |archivedate=2007-06-17 }}</ref> <!--A specimen of ''[[Philautus maia|P. maia]]'', was redisc