What is Raorchestes thodai?
{{italictitle}} {{Speciesbox | image = | status =DD | status_ref =<ref name=IUCN /> | status_system = IUCN3.1 | taxon = Raorchestes thodai | authority =Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju, Radhakrishnan, Palot, and Kalesh, 2011 | range_map = |synonyms= | synonyms_ref=<ref name=AMNH /> }} The '''Thoda bush frog''' (''Raorchestes thodai'') is a [[frog]]. It lives in [[India]]. Scientists have seen it [[type locality (biology)|in exactly one place]]: 1980 meters above sea level.<ref name=AMNH>{{BioRef|ASW6 |title=''Raorchestes thodai'' Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju, Radhakrishnan, Palot, and Kalesh, 2011 |url=https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Raorchestes/Raorchestes-thodai |access-date=September 10, 2023}}</ref><ref name=Amph>{{BioRef|amphibiaweb |title= ''Raorchestes thodai'' Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju, Radhakrishnan, Palot, and Kalesh, 2011 |author1= |editor1= |date= |language= |url=https://amphibiaweb.org/species/7687 |access-date=September 10, 2023}}</ref><ref name=IUCN>{{cite IUCN |title= Thoda Bush Frog: ''Raorchestes thodai'' |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/56041099/56041113 |page=e.T56041099A56041113 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T56041099A56041113.en |id=56041099 |year=2023 |author1=IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group |accessdate=April 26, 2024}}</ref> Scientists are not sure what kinds of places this frog lives in (forests or grassy places or rocky places). They found the frog for the first time in small pieces of forest near a town called [[Ooty]]. There were [[eucalyptus]] tree, wattle tree farms, and pine tree farms in between the pieces of forest. Scientists have seen this frog between 1863 and 2465 meters above sea level.<ref name=IUCN /> Scientists think this frog [[direct development|hatches out of its egg as a small frog]], like other frogs in ''Raorchestes'', and never swims as a tadpole.<ref name=IUCN /> Scientists think this might be the same species of frog as ''[[Raorchestes signatus]]''