Raorchestes
# Raorchestes

Raorchestes est un genre d'amphibiens de la famille des Rhacophoridae.

## Répartition

Les 60 espèces de genre se rencontrent en Asie du Sud, en Asie du Sud-Est et dans le sud de l'Asie de l'Est.

## Liste des espèces

Selon Amphibian Species of the World (22 mars 2016) :

* Raorchestes agasthyaensis Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju, Radhakrishnan, Palot & Kalesh, 2011
* Raorchestes akroparallagi (Biju & Bossuyt, 2009)
* Raorchestes anili (Biju & Bossuyt, 2006)
* Raorchestes annandalii (Boulenger, 1906)
* Raorchestes archeos Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu & Shanker, 2014
* Raorchestes aureus Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu & Shanker, 2014
* Raorchestes beddomii (Günther, 1876)
* Raorchestes blandus Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu & Shanker, 2014
* Raorchestes bobingeri (Biju & Bossuyt, 2005)
* Raorchestes bombayensis (Annandale, 1919)
* Raorchestes chalazodes (Günther, 1876)
* Raorchestes charius (Rao, 1937)
* Raorchestes chlorosomma (Biju & Bossuyt, 2009)
* Raorchestes chotta (Biju & Bossuyt, 2009)
* Raorchestes chromasynchysi (Biju & Bossuyt, 2009)
* Raorchestes coonoorensis (Biju & Bossuyt, 2009)
* Raorchestes crustai Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju, Radhakrishnan, Palot & Kalesh, 2011
* Raorchestes dubois (Biju & Bossuyt, 2006)
* Raorchestes echinatus Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu & Shanker, 2014
* Raorchestes flaviocularis Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu & Shanker, 2014
* Raorchestes flaviventris (Boulenger, 1882)
* Raorchestes ghatei Padhye, Sayyed, Jadhav & Dahanukar, 2013
* Raorchestes glandulosus (Jerdon, 1853)
* Raorchestes graminirupes (Biju & Bossuyt, 2005)
* Raorchestes griet (Bossuyt, 2002)
* Raorchestes gryllus (Smith, 1924)
* Raorchestes hassanensis Dutta, 1985
* Raorchestes honnametti Gururaja,Priti, Roshmi & Aravind, 2016
* Raorchestes indigo Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu & Shanker, 2014
* Raorchestes jayarami (Biju & Bossuyt, 2009)
* Raorchestes johnceei Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju, Radhakrishnan, Palot & Kalesh, 2011
* Raorchestes kadalarensis Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju, Radhakrishnan, Palot & Kalesh, 2011
* Raorchestes kaikatti (Biju & Bossuyt, 2009)
* Raorchestes kakachi Seshadri, Gururaja & Aravind, 2012
* Raorchestes leucolatus Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu & Shanker, 2014
* Raorchestes longchuanensis (Yang & Li, 1978)
* Raorchestes luteolus (Kuramoto & Joshy, 2003)
* Raorchestes manipurensis (Mathew & Sen, 2009)
* Raorchestes manohari Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju, Radhakrishnan, Palot & Kalesh, 2011
* Raorchestes marki (Biju & Bossuyt, 2009)
* Raorchestes menglaensis (Kou, 1990)
* Raorchestes munnarensis (Biju & Bossuyt, 2009)
* Raorchestes nerostagona (Biju & Bossuyt, 2005)
* Raorchestes ochlandrae (Gururaja, Dinesh, Palot, Radhakrishnan & Ramachandra, 2007)
* Raorchestes parvulus (Boulenger, 1893)
* Raorchestes ponmudi (Biju & Bossuyt, 2005)
* Raorchestes primarrumpfi Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu & Shanker, 2014
* Raorchestes ravii Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju, Radhakrishnan, Palot & Kalesh, 2011
* Raorchestes resplendens Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta & Bossuyt, 2010
* Raorchestes sahai (Sarkar & Ray, 2006)
* Raorchestes shillongensis (Pillai & Chanda, 1973)
* Raorchestes signatus (Boulenger, 1882)
* Raorchestes sushili (Biju & Bossuyt, 2009)
* Raorchestes terebrans (Das & Chanda, 1998)
* Raorchestes theuerkaufi Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju, Radhakrishnan, Palot & Kalesh, 2011
* Raorchestes thodai Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju, Radhakrishnan, Palot & Kalesh, 2011
* Raorchestes tinniens (Jerdon, 1854)
* Raorchestes travancoricus (Boulenger, 1891)
* Raorchestes tuberohumerus (Kuramoto & Joshy, 2003)
* Raorchestes uthamani Zachariah, Dinesh, Kunhikrishnan, Das, Raju, Radhakrishnan, Palot & Kalesh, 2011

## Étymologie

Le nom de ce genre est formé à partir de Rao, en l'honneur de C.R. Narayan Rao, et de Orchestes Tschudi, 1838, qui est le premier genre nommé de la famille des Rhacophoridae.

## Publications originales

* Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta & Bossuyt, 2010 : A ground-dwelling rhacophorid frog from the highest mountain peak of the Western Ghats of India. Current Science, vol. 98, p. 1119-1125 (texte intégral).
