Pseudophilautus auratus

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Pseudophilautus auratus

Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Rhacophoridae
Genus:	Pseudophilautus
Species:	P. auratus
Binomial name
*Pseudophilautus auratus* (Manamendra-Arachchi & Pethiyagoda, 2005)

Synonyms
Philautus auratus Manamendra-Arachchi & Pethiyagoda, 2005^[2]

Pseudophilautus auratus, commonly called golden shrub frog,^[3] is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae, endemic to Sri Lanka,^[1] where it lives in closed-canopy cloud forests between 513 and 1270 meters above sea level, including the Sinharaja World Heritage Site and Kanneliya Forest.^[4]^[5]

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and plantations. It is threatened by habitat loss.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Pseudophilautus auratus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T58819A156581200. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T58819A156581200.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
^ Manamendra-Arachchi, Kelum; Pethiyagoda, Rohan (2005). "The Sri Lankan shrub-frogs of the genus Philautus Gistel, 1848 (Ranidae: Rhacophorinae), with description of 27 new species" (PDF). Contributions to Biodiversity Exploration and Research in Sri Lanka. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Supplement. Vol. 12. pp. 279–280.
^ "27 new Pseudophilautus (firstly: Philautus) • Sri Lankan Shrub Frogs (Rhacophorinae)". Novataxa. July 2011. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
^ Frost, Darrel R. "Pseudophilautus auratus (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 8, 2023.
^ "Pseudophilautus auratus (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2005)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved November 8, 2023.

Taxon identifiers
Pseudophilautus auratus	Wikidata: Q28061055 Wikispecies: Pseudophilautus auratus AmphibiaWeb: 6506 ARKive: pseudophilautus-auratus ASW: Pseudophilautus-auratus CoL: 4P6ZY GBIF: 5785965 iNaturalist: 66360 ITIS: 1102352 IUCN: 58819 Observation.org: 957025
Philautus auratus	Wikidata: Q2701731 CoL: 6V9YF EoL: 7246754 GBIF: 2423709 ITIS: 775247 Observation.org: 204319 Open Tree of Life: 3618596

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