Pseudophilautus lunatus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Amphibia
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Rhacophoridae
- Genus
- Pseudophilautus
- Species
- Pseudophilautus lunatus
- Scientific Name
- Pseudophilautus lunatus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pseudophilautus lunatus
Pseudophilautus lunatus, commonly known as Handapan Ella shrub frog, is a species of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae.
It is endemic to Sri Lanka. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss. Scientists know it exclusively from the type locality: Handapan Ell Plains, in the eastern part of the Sinharaja World Heritage Site, 1270 meters above sea level.
One adult female frog was found to be 40.9 m long in snout-vent length. This frog has black spots near the eyes and white color on the chin. The skin of the dorsum is red-brown in the middle of the back and gray-brown with black marks on the sides of the back. The ventrum is gray-white in color. The toes are dark gray in color, and the tops of the toes have some yellow color.
Many parts of the frog's eye are brown in color.
This frog is critically endangered. Scientists attribute this to habitat loss for the sake of grazing and logging and because of pollution and lethality from fertilizers and pesticides. However, scientists also report that the population is small but appears to be holding steady instead of declining
...Pseudophilautus lunatus in languages:
- English
- Handapan Ella Shrub Frog
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Pseudophilautus abundus
- Pseudophilautus adspersus
- Pseudophilautus alto
- Pseudophilautus amboli
- Pseudophilautus asankai
- Pseudophilautus auratus
- Pseudophilautus bambaradeniyai
- Pseudophilautus caeruleus
- Pseudophilautus cavirostris
- Pseudophilautus conniffae
- Pseudophilautus cuspis
- Pseudophilautus dayawansai
- Pseudophilautus decoris
- Pseudophilautus dilmah
- Pseudophilautus dimbullae
- Pseudophilautus eximius
- Pseudophilautus extirpo
- Pseudophilautus femoralis
- Pseudophilautus fergusonianus
- Pseudophilautus folicola
- Pseudophilautus frankenbergi
- Pseudophilautus fulvus
- Pseudophilautus hallidayi
- Pseudophilautus halyi
- Pseudophilautus hankeni
- Pseudophilautus hoffmanni
- Pseudophilautus hoipolloi
- Pseudophilautus hypomelas
- Pseudophilautus jagathgunawardanai
- Pseudophilautus kani
- Pseudophilautus karunarathnai
- Pseudophilautus leucorhinus
- Pseudophilautus limbus
- Pseudophilautus lunatus
- Pseudophilautus macropus
- Pseudophilautus maia
- Pseudophilautus malcolmsmithi
- Pseudophilautus microtympanum
- Pseudophilautus mittermeieri
- Pseudophilautus mooreorum
- Pseudophilautus nanus
- Pseudophilautus nasutus
- Pseudophilautus nemus
- Pseudophilautus newtonjayawardanei
- Pseudophilautus ocularis
- Pseudophilautus oxyrhynchus
- Pseudophilautus papillosus
- Pseudophilautus pardus
- Pseudophilautus pleurotaenia
- Pseudophilautus poppiae
- Pseudophilautus popularis
- Pseudophilautus procax
- Pseudophilautus puranappu
- Pseudophilautus regius
- Pseudophilautus reticulatus
- Pseudophilautus rugatus
- Pseudophilautus rus
- Pseudophilautus samarakoon
- Pseudophilautus sarasinorum
- Pseudophilautus schmarda
- Pseudophilautus schneideri
- Pseudophilautus semiruber
- Pseudophilautus silus
- Pseudophilautus silvaticus
- Pseudophilautus simba
- Pseudophilautus singu
- Pseudophilautus sirilwijesundarai
- Pseudophilautus sordidus
- Pseudophilautus steineri
- Pseudophilautus stellatus
- Pseudophilautus stictomerus
- Pseudophilautus stuarti
- Pseudophilautus tanu
- Pseudophilautus temporalis
- Pseudophilautus variabilis
- Pseudophilautus viridis
- Pseudophilautus wynaadensis
- Pseudophilautus zal
- Pseudophilautus zimmeri
- Pseudophilautus zorro
