Raorchestes garo

Raorchestes garo (Boulenger, 1919) is a small bush frog first described from above Tura in the Garo Hills, then part of Assam. A 2024 survey in Meghalaya's Khasi Hills found males calling from bushes in dense forest and near villages, at Mawpat (1,355 m) and Mawsynram (1,445 m). Adults reach about 22 to 24 mm. They are beige on the back with dark crossbars on the limbs, a dark brown fold above the ear, black patches in the groin, a golden-brown iris and a creamy-white belly spotted with white. Finger and toe tips are expanded into discs, and the fingers are unwebbed. (2024 Journal of Threatened Taxa survey, open access).

The advertisement call is a single very short note lasting about 0.03 seconds, repeated roughly 35 times a minute at a dominant frequency near 2.9 kHz, given from perches 50 cm to 5 m above the ground. Males have a transparent throat pouch that shows when they call. Like other Raorchestes it is thought to lay eggs that develop directly into froglets, but no eggs or tadpoles have been reported for this species. (2024 Journal of Threatened Taxa survey, open access).