Raorchestes luteolus

Raorchestes luteolus
Conservation status
LC (IUCN3.1Q)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Rhacophoridae
Genus:	Raorchestes
Species:	R. luteolus
Binomial name
Raorchestes luteolus (Kuramoto and Joshy, 2003)
Synonyms
Philautus luteolus Kuramoto and Joshy, 2003 Philautus neelanethrus Gururaja, Aravind, Ali, Ramachandra, Velavan, Krishnakumar, and Aggarwal, 2007 Pseudophilautus luteolus Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009 Raorchestes luteolus Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta, and Bossuyt, 2010

The Coorg yellow bush frog or blue-eyed yellow bush frog (Raorchestes luteolus) is a frog. It lives in southern India. Scientists have seen it in the Western Ghat mountains between 500 and 1250 meters above sea level.

The adult male frog is about 26.8 mm long from nose to rear end. The skin of the frog's back is yellow or yellow-brown in color with light stripes that are not easy to see. The male frog turns yellow when it is time to find female frogs who will lay eggs. It turns cream-white at other times of year.

This frog lives in forests and in Myristica swamps on the mountains. It sits on plants about 1 meter above the ground. People have seen this frog in forests that were cut down and are growing back, coffee farms, and other places that humans have changed.

Scientists say this frog is not in danger of dying out because it lives in a large place, which includes many protected parks, but humans can harm the frog by building and improving roads in the Western Ghat Mountains, building farms, removing trees or dead leaves from the forest, and changing its habitat in other ways.

Scientists have seen the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on other frogs in Raorchestes, so they think it could infect R. jayarami too. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis causes the fungal disease chytridiomycosis.