Pseudophilautus dimbullae

Pseudophilautus dimbullae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Rhacophoridae
Genus: Pseudophilautus
Species:
P. dimbullae
Binomial name
Pseudophilautus dimbullae
(Shreve, 1940)
Synonyms[2]
  • Rhacophorus dimbullae Shreve, 1940
  • Philautus dimbullae Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001
  • Pseudophilautus dimbullae Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009

Pseudophilautus dimbullae is a frog. It lived in Sri Lanka. People have seen it in exactly one place: the Queenswood Estate in the Dimbulla Valley, 1500 meters above sea level.[2][3][1]

This frog is extinct. All frogs in this species are dead.[3]

One adult female frog was 44.8 mm long from nose to rear end.

First paper

  • Manamendra-Arachchi K; Pethiyagoda R (2005). "The Sri Lankan shrub-frogs of the genus Philautus Gistel, 1848 (Ranidae:Rhacophorinae), with description of 27 new species". Raffles Bull Zool Suppl. 12: 163–303.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Pseudophilautus dimbullae". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. p. e.T58835A156581915. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T58835A156581915.en. 58835. Retrieved October 30, 2023.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Pseudophilautus dimbullae (Shreve, 1940)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved October 29, 2023.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Krystal Gong (May 11, 2009). Kellie Whittaker (ed.). "Pseudophilautus dimbullae (Shreve, 1940)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved October 30, 2023.