Pseudophilautus dimbullae

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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[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. 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.