Pseudophilautus asankai
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Rhacophoridae |
| Genus: | Pseudophilautus |
| Species: | P. asankai
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| Pseudophilautus asankai (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2005)
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Asanka's shrub frog (Pseudophilautus sordidus) is a frog. It lives in Sri Lanka. People have seen it between 810 and 1830 meters above sea level.[2][3][1]
The adult male frog is about 21.2 – 23.4 mm long from nose to rear end. There is extra skin on the toes of the front feet and webbed skin on the toes of the back feet. The skin of the frog's back is ash-brown in color. The toes of all four feet, parts of the legs, and the belly are yellow in color. Parts of the frog's middle and back legs have small yellow spots.[3]
This frog lives in small woody plants that live in places where the sunlight reaches partway to the forest floor. Like other frogs in Pseudophilautus, it does not swim as a tadpole. This frog hatches out of its egg as a small frog.[3]
Scientists used to think that this frog and P. hoffmani were two different species, but they changed their minds in 2021.[3]
First paper[change | change source]
- 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[change | change source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2021). "Hylodes asankai". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. p. e.T174265411A156581076. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T174265411A156581076.en. 174265411. Retrieved November 5, 2023.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Pseudophilautus asankai (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2005)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved November 5, 2023.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Dayupathi Eranda Nipunika Mandawala (April 8, 2023). Michelle S. Koo (ed.). "Pseudophilautus asankai (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2005)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved November 5, 2023.
