Pseudophilautus rus
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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. rus
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| Binomial name | |
| Pseudophilautus rus (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2005)
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The Kandyan shrub frog (Pseudophilautus rus) is a frog. It lives in Sri Lanka. Scientists have seen it between 500 and 800 meters above sea level.[2][3][1]
The adult male frog is about 20.6 – 24.1 mm from nose to rear end and adult female frog can be as big as 23.1 mm long.[3]
The skin of the frog's back is dark brown in color. It has dark black marks on the tops of its back legs. The area near the eardrum is dark brown with lighter brown marks. The eardrum is red-brown in color. The sides of the body are light brown and yellow in color. The webbed skin on the feet is dark brown in color.[3]
Like other frogs in Pseudophilautus, P. rus hatches out of its eggs as small frogs. They never swim as tadpoles.[3]
This frog is not endangered, but there are fewer of them than there were. Scientists think this is because human beings change the places where the frog lives to build cities and because of chemicals like pollution, chemicals to kill pests, and chemicals to make crops grow.[3]
The frog's scientific name, rus, comes from a Latin word that means "countryside" or "farmland." This is because scientists found the frog in the countryside in Kandy.[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 (2020). "Kandyan Shrub Frog: Pseudophilautus rus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. p. e.T58896A156584717. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T58896A156584717.en. 58896. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Pseudophilautus regius (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 26, 2023.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Dinal Samarasinghe (July 31, 2023). Michelle S. Koo; John Cavagnaro (eds.). "Pseudophilautus rus (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2005)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
