Minervarya greenii

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Minervarya greenii
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Dicroglossidae
Genus: Minervarya
Species:
M. greenii
Binomial name
Minervarya greenii
(Boulenger, 1905)
Fejervarya greenii map-fr.svg
Range of F. greenii in Sri Lanka
Synonyms
  • Rana greeniiBoulenger, 1905
  • Fejervarya greenii(Boulenger, 1905)
  • Zakerana greenii

Minervarya greenii (common names: montane frog, [1] [2] Sri Lanka paddy field frog [3] ) is a species of frog that is endemic to the hills of central Sri Lanka. [2] It lives in wetland habitats within montane tropical moist forests. It is threatened by habitat loss, pollution, desiccation of wetlands, forest fires as well as predation by introduced rainbow trout. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Minervarya greenii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2020 e.T58271A156579645. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T58271A156579645.en . Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  2. 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Minervarya greenii (Boulenger, 1905)". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  3. ↑ "Sri Lanka paddy field frog (Fejervarya greenii)". ARKive. Wildscreen. Archived from the original on 2015-09-05. Retrieved 15 September 2015.


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