{ { Speciesbox

| image =Raorchestes tuberohumerus.jpg

| status =LC

| status_ref =

| status_system = IUCN3.1Q

| taxon = Raorchestes tuberohumerus

| authority =(Kuramoto and Joshy, 2003) | range_map = |synonyms=*Philautus tuberohumerus Kuramoto and Joshy, 2003Pseudophilautus tuberohumerus Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009Raorchestes tuberohumerus Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta, and Bossuyt, 2010 | synonyms_ref= }} The Kudremukh yellow bush frog (Raorchestes tuberohumerus) is a frog. It lives in southern India. Scientists have seen it in the Western Ghat mountains. 1000 meters above sea level.

This is a small frog. The adult male frog is about 18 mm long from nose to rear end. The skin of its back is brown with yellow spots on the tops of the legs. Some frogs have a mark like an hourglass on their backs. There are large red or yellow marks near where the back legs meet the body. This frog can change color: it is darker during the day than at night, and its marks are clearer.

Raorchestes tuberohumerus

A part of the front leg bone sticks out. This bone is called the humerus. Scientists think this is the only frog that has a front leg bone like this. This is why they gave the frog the Latin name tuberohumerus. It means "knobbed humerus bone."

Raorchestes tuberohumerus

The scientists who wrote the first paper only found male frogs, so they do not know whether the female frogs also have these colors or spiked arm bones.

Raorchestes tuberohumerus

Scienitsts think this frog looks like Raorchestes bombayensis'' but smaller.

References

Frogs of Asia