Pseudophilautus silus

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Pseudophilautus silus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Rhacophoridae
Genus: Pseudophilautus
Species:
P. silus
Binomial name
Pseudophilautus silus
(Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2005)
Synonyms[2]
  • Philautus silus Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2005
  • Pseudophilautus silus Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009

The pug-nosed shrub frog (Pseudophilautus silus) is a frog. It lives in the middle of Sri Lanka on the Horton Plains plateau and other places where the tree branches come together like a roof. People have seen it between 1550 and 1600 meters above sea level.[2][1]

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 "Pseudophilautus silus (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2005)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Pseudophilautus silus (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2005)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved October 31, 2023.