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| image =Davidraju IMG 4203 - Raorchestes silentvalley - Silent Valley Bush Frog.jpg
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| status_system = IUCN3.1
| taxon = Raorchestes silentvalley
| authority =Zachariah, Cyriac, Chandramohan, Ansil, Mathew, Raju, and Abraham, 2016 
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The '''Silent Valley bush frog''' (''Raorchestes silentvalley'') is a [[frog]].  It lives in [[India]].  Scientists first saw this frog 2100 meters above sea level in Silent Valley National Park.<ref name=AMNH>{{BioRef|ASW6
|title=''Raorchestes silentvalley'' Zachariah, Cyriac, Chandramohan, Ansil, Mathew, Raju, and Abraham, 2016 
|url=https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Rhacophoridae/Rhacophorinae/Raorchestes/Raorchestes-silentvalley
|access-date=September 13, 2023}}</ref><ref name=Amph>{{BioRef|amphibiaweb
|title= ''Raorchestes silentvalley'' Zachariah, Cyriac, Chandramohan, Ansil, Mathew, Raju, and Abraham, 2016 
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|url=https://amphibiaweb.org/species/8489
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|title= Silent Valley Bush Frog: ''Raorchestes silentvalley''
|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/113887952/113887963
|page=e.T113887952A113887963
|doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T113887952A113887963.en
|id=113887952
|year=2023
|author1=IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group
|accessdate=April 20, 2024}}</ref>

Scientists found one adult male frog that was about 26.9 mm long [[snout-vent length|from nose to rear end]].  The skin of its back was green and the skin of its belly was yellow.  There were purple-black spots near the legs. Different frogs can have different marks. There is no webbed skin on the front feet and some webbed skin on the back feet.<ref name=Des>{{cite journal|author1=Zachariah A|author2= Cyriac VP|author3= Chandramohan B|author4= Ansil BR|author5= Mathew JK|author6= Raiu DV|author7= Abraham RK |year=2016 |title=Two new species of Raorchestes (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from the Silent Valley National Park in the Nilgiri Hills of the Western Ghats, India|journal= Salamandra |volume=52|pages= 63 - 76|issue=2|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304316726_Two_new_species_of_Raorchestes_Anura_Rhacophoridae_from_the_Silent_Valley_National_Park_in_the_Nilgiri_Hills_of_the_Western_Ghats_India|accessdate=September 14, 2023|type=Full text}}</ref> 

People have seen this frog in wet forests on mountains. People see the frog sitting on [[sapling|young trees]] and [[understory|smaller woody plants]].  People have seen this frog between 1,850 and 2,200 meters above sea level.<ref name=IUCN />

Like other frogs in ''Raorchestes'', this frog [[direct development|hatches out of its egg as a small frog]] and never swims as a tadpole.<ref name=IUCN />

Scientists believe this frog is at some danger of dying out because it only lives in two places, even though those places are a protected park: [[Silent Valley National Park]] and [[Mukurthi National Park]].  If people stop protecting those parks, all the frogs in this species could die.<ref name=IUCN />

==References==
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[[Category:Frogs of Asia]]
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