Philautus

***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.

These frogs never swim as tadpoles. They hatch out of eggs as froglets, or small frogs. Some frogs bury their eggs in soil. Others lay eggs on leaves.

## Group

In 2009, scientists from Delhi University found many frogs in the forest in the Western Ghat Mountains.

## List of species

The following species are in _Philautus_:

- _Philautus abditus_ <small>Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999</small>
- _Philautus acutirostris_ <small>(Peters, 1867)</small>
- _Philautus acutus_ <small>Dring, 1987</small>
- _Philautus amabilis_ <small>Wostl, Riyanto, Hamidy, Kurniawan, Smith, and Harvey, 2017</small>
- _Philautus amoenus_ <small>Smith, 1931</small>
- _Philautus aurantium_ <small>Inger, 1989</small>
- _Philautus aurifasciatus_ <small>(Schlegel, 1837)</small>
- _Philautus bunitus_ <small>Inger, Stuebing, and Tan, 1995</small>
- _Philautus cardamonus_ <small>Ohler, Swan, and Daltry, 2002</small>
- _Philautus catbaensis_ <small>Milto, Poyarkov, Orlov, and Nguyen, 2013</small>
- _Philautus cinerascens_ <small>(Stoliczka, 1870)</small>
- _Philautus cornutus_ <small>(Boulenger, 1920)</small>
- _Philautus davidlabangi_ <small>Matsui, 2009</small>
- _Philautus disgregus_ <small>Inger, 1989</small>
- _Philautus dubius_ <small>(Boulenger, 1882)</small>
- _Philautus erythrophthalmus_ <small>Stuebing and Wong, 2000</small>
- _Philautus everetti_ <small>(Boulenger, 1894)</small>
- _Philautus garo_ <small>(Boulenger, 1919)</small>
- _Philautus gunungensis_ <small>Malkmus and Riede, 1996</small>
- _Philautus hosii_ <small>(Boulenger, 1895)</small>
- _Philautus ingeri_ <small>Dring, 1987</small>
- _Philautus jacobsoni_ <small>(Van Kampen, 1912)</small>
- _Philautus juliandringi_ <small>Dehling, 2010</small>
- _Philautus kakipanjang_ <small>Dehling and Dehling, 2013</small>
- _Philautus kempiae_ <small>(Boulenger, 1919)</small>
- _Philautus kempii_ <small>(Annandale, 1912)</small>
- _Philautus kerangae_ <small>Dring, 1987</small>
- _Philautus leitensis_ <small>(Boulenger, 1897)</small>
- _Philautus longicrus_ <small>(Boulenger, 1894)</small>
- _Philautus macroscelis_ <small>(Boulenger, 1896)</small>
- _Philautus maosonensis_ <small>Bourret, 1937</small>
- _Philautus microdiscus_ <small>(Annandale, 1912)</small>
- _Philautus mjobergi_ <small>Smith, 1925</small>
- _Philautus namdaphaensis_ <small>Sarkar and Sanyal, 1985</small>
- _Philautus nephophilus_ <small>Dehling, Matsui, and Yambun Imbun, 2016</small>
- _Philautus nianeae_ <small>Stuart, Phimmachak, Seateun, and Sheridan, 2013</small>
- _Philautus pallidipes_ <small>(Barbour, 1908)</small>
- _Philautus petersi_ <small>(Boulenger, 1900)</small>
- _Philautus poecilius_ <small>Brown and Alcala, 1994</small>
- _Philautus polymorphus_ <small>Wostl, Riyanto, Hamidy, Kurniawan, Smith, and Harvey, 2017</small>
- _Philautus refugii_ <small>Inger and Stuebing, 1996</small>
- _Philautus saueri_ <small>Malkmus and Riede, 1996</small>
- _Philautus schmackeri_ <small>(Boettger, 1892)</small>
- _Philautus surdus_ <small>(Peters, 1863)</small>
- _Philautus surrufus_ <small>Brown and Alcala, 1994</small>
- _Philautus tectus_ <small>Dring, 1987</small>
- _Philautus thamyridion_ <small>Wostl, Riyanto, Hamidy, Kurniawan, Smith, and Harvey, 2017</small>
- _Philautus tytthus_ <small>Smith, 1940</small>
- _Philautus umbra_ <small>Dring, 1987</small>
- _Philautus ventrimaculatus_ <small>Wostl, Riyanto, Hamidy, Kurniawan, Smith, and Harvey, 2017</small>
- _Philautus vermiculatus_ <small>(Boulenger, 1900)</small>
- _Philautus worcesteri_ <small>(Stejneger, 1905)</small>

## 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. 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
- 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