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Philautus

{{Short description|Genus of amphibians}}

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| image_caption = Philautus dubius

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| taxon = Philautus

| authority = Gistel, 1848

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Philautus is a genus of shrub frogs in the family Rhacophoridae from Asia. Some species in this genus are now considered extinct by IUCN, while others are widespread and abundant (such as the recently described P. abundus, which was specifically named for this fact). The taxonomy of the group is unclear, with many poorly described species.{{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 }}

This genus is unique in that development is not direct, with all growth within the egg and no free-swimming tadpole stage.{{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 }} Some species have been found to bury their eggs in soil, although they are arboreal, and others attach their eggs to leaves.{{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 }}

Revision

In early 2009, Delhi University researchers revised this genus after discovering and rediscovering species in Western Ghats forest.{{cite news |author=University of Delhi |author-link=University of Delhi |title=Dozen New Tree Frogs Discovered In Rapidly Vanishing Habitat In India |publisher=ScienceDaily |date=February 3, 2009 |url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202183805.htm}}

List of species

The following species are recognised in the genus Philautus:{{cite web |url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Philautus |title=Philautus Gistel, 1848 |author=Frost, Darrel R. |year=2016 |work=Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |accessdate=21 January 2019}}

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==References==

  • 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. [http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/archive/00012401/ 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 [http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s12/s12rbz163-303.pdf PDF]
  • 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. [http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s12/s12rbz305-338.pdf PDF]

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Category:Rhacophoridae

Category:Amphibians of Asia

Category:Taxa named by Johannes von Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel

Category:Amphibian genera