Philautus is a group of shrub frogs. This 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 the different frogs are related to each other or to other frogs.[1]
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These frogs never swim as tadpoles. They hatch out of eggs as froglets, or small frogs.[2] Some frogs bury their eggs in soil. Others lay eggs on leaves.[3]
In 2009, scientists from Delhi University found many frogs in the forest in the Western Ghat Mountains.[4]
The following species are in Philautus:[5]
- Philautus abditus Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999
- Philautus acutirostris (Peters, 1867)
- Philautus acutus Dring, 1987
- Philautus amabilis Wostl, Riyanto, Hamidy, Kurniawan, Smith, and Harvey, 2017
- Philautus amoenus Smith, 1931
- Philautus aurantium Inger, 1989
- Philautus aurifasciatus (Schlegel, 1837)
- Philautus bunitus Inger, Stuebing, and Tan, 1995
- Philautus cardamonus Ohler, Swan, and Daltry, 2002
- Philautus catbaensis Milto, Poyarkov, Orlov, and Nguyen, 2013
- Philautus cinerascens (Stoliczka, 1870)
- Philautus cornutus (Boulenger, 1920)
- Philautus davidlabangi Matsui, 2009
- Philautus disgregus Inger, 1989
- Philautus dubius (Boulenger, 1882)
- Philautus erythrophthalmus Stuebing and Wong, 2000
- Philautus everetti (Boulenger, 1894)
- Philautus garo (Boulenger, 1919)
- Philautus gunungensis Malkmus and Riede, 1996
- Philautus hosii (Boulenger, 1895)
- Philautus ingeri Dring, 1987
- Philautus jacobsoni (Van Kampen, 1912)
- Philautus juliandringi Dehling, 2010
- Philautus kakipanjang Dehling and Dehling, 2013
- Philautus kempiae (Boulenger, 1919)
- Philautus kempii (Annandale, 1912)
- Philautus kerangae Dring, 1987
- Philautus leitensis (Boulenger, 1897)
- Philautus longicrus (Boulenger, 1894)
- Philautus macroscelis (Boulenger, 1896)
- Philautus maosonensis Bourret, 1937
- Philautus microdiscus (Annandale, 1912)
- Philautus mjobergi Smith, 1925
- Philautus namdaphaensis Sarkar and Sanyal, 1985
- Philautus nephophilus Dehling, Matsui, and Yambun Imbun, 2016
- Philautus nianeae Stuart, Phimmachak, Seateun, and Sheridan, 2013
- Philautus pallidipes (Barbour, 1908)
- Philautus petersi (Boulenger, 1900)
- Philautus poecilius Brown and Alcala, 1994
- Philautus polymorphus Wostl, Riyanto, Hamidy, Kurniawan, Smith, and Harvey, 2017
- Philautus refugii Inger and Stuebing, 1996
- Philautus saueri Malkmus and Riede, 1996
- Philautus schmackeri (Boettger, 1892)
- Philautus surdus (Peters, 1863)
- Philautus surrufus Brown and Alcala, 1994
- Philautus tectus Dring, 1987
- Philautus thamyridion Wostl, Riyanto, Hamidy, Kurniawan, Smith, and Harvey, 2017
- Philautus tytthus Smith, 1940
- Philautus umbra Dring, 1987
- Philautus ventrimaculatus Wostl, Riyanto, Hamidy, Kurniawan, Smith, and Harvey, 2017
- Philautus vermiculatus (Boulenger, 1900)
- Philautus worcesteri (Stejneger, 1905)
Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Philautus Gistel, 1848". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
- Gururaja, KV and Dinesh, KP and Palot, MJ and Radhakrishnan, C and Ramachandra, TV (2007) A new species of Philautus Gistel (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from southern Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa 1621:pp. 1–16. PDF
- Manamendra-Arachchi, K.& R. Pethiyagoda. 2005 The Sri Lankan shrub-frogs of the genus Philautus Gistel, 1848 (Ranidae: Rhacophorinae), with description of 27 new species. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement No. 12:163-303 PDF Archived 2007-06-18 at the Wayback Machine
- Meegaskumbura, M. & K. Manamendra-Arachchi. 2005. Description of eight new species of shrub-frogs (Ranidae: Rhacophorinae: Philautus) from Sri Lanka. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement No. 12:305-338. PDF Archived 2007-06-17 at the Wayback Machine