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* 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)

## Notes
## 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.&nbsp;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