Pseudophilautus dilmah

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Dilmah shrub frog
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Rhacophoridae
Genus: Pseudophilautus
Species:
P. dilmah
Binomial name
Pseudophilautus dilmah
(Wickramasinghe etal, 2015)

Pseudophilautus dilmah, the Dilmah shrub frog, is a species of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae, endemic to Sri Lanka. [1] The species was discovered and documented in 2015 by Sri Lankan prominent wildlife researcher and herpetologist Mendis Wickramasinghe and his crew from Loolkandura forest of Central highlands of Sri Lanka, 1324 meters above sea level. [2] It is distinguished mainly from other shrub frogs by the absence of nuptial pads and anterior and posterior dorsum without horny spinules. [3] [4]

Its natural habitats are wet highland forests of Sri Lanka. As other frogs in the island, it is thought to be threatened by habitat loss and other anthropogenic works. The frog was named after Dilmah Conservation. [5] [6]

Taxonomy

It is one of the 87 species of Pseudophilautus and its sister taxon is thought to be Pseudophilautus hankeni . [2] [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Pseudophilautus dilmah; Dilmah Shrub Frog; Dilmah panduru madiya - A New Species of Shrub Frog (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from A Threatened Habitat Loolkandura in Sri Lanka". novataxa. 27 April 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  2. 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. "Pseudophilautus dilmah Wickramasinghe, Bandara, Vidanapathirana, Tennakoon, Samarakoon, and Wickramasinge, 2015". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved December 11, 2023.
  3. ↑ Wickramasinghe, Mendis; Bandara, Imesh Nuwan; et al. (26 April 2015). "Pseudophilautus dilmah, a new species of shrub frog (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from a threatened habitat Loolkandura in Sri Lanka" (PDF). threatenedtaxa.org. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  4. 1 2 Wickramasinghe, L.J. Mendis; Bandara, Imesh Nuwan; et al. (1 April 2015). "Directory of Open Access Journals". Journal of Threatened Taxa . 7 (5): 7089–7110. doi:10.11609/jott.1966.7089-7110 (inactive 12 July 2025). ISSN   0974-7893 . Retrieved 29 April 2021– via DOAJ.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)
  5. ↑ "Newly Discovered Shrub Frog Named After Dilmah". Dilmah Ceylon Tea Company PLC. 28 April 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  6. ↑ Rodrigo, Bernadine (1 March 2020). "Frogs are to be treated like princes". The Morning. Retrieved 29 April 2021.


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