Pseudophilautus lunatus

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Pseudophilautus lunatus

Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Rhacophoridae
Genus:	Pseudophilautus
Species:	P. lunatus
Binomial name
*Pseudophilautus lunatus* (Manamendra-Arachchi & Pethiyagoda, 2004)
Synonyms
Philautus lunatus Manamendra-Arachchi & Pethiyagoda, 2004

Pseudophilautus lunatus, commonly known as Handapan Ella shrub frog, is a species of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae.^[2]

It is endemic to Sri Lanka. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss. Scientists know it exclusively from the type locality: Handapan Ell Plains, in the eastern part of the Sinharaja World Heritage Site, 1270 meters above sea level.^[3]^[4]

One adult female frog was found to be 40.9 m long in snout-vent length. This frog has black spots near the eyes and white color on the chin. The skin of the dorsum is red-brown in the middle of the back and gray-brown with black marks on the sides of the back. The ventrum is gray-white in color. The toes are dark gray in color, and the tops of the toes have some yellow color.^[4]

Many parts of the frog's eye are brown in color.^[4]

This frog is critically endangered. Scientists attribute this to habitat loss for the sake of grazing and logging and because of pollution and lethality from fertilizers and pesticides. However, scientists also report that the population is small but appears to be holding steady instead of declining^[4]

References

^ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Pseudophilautus lunatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T58866A156582876. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T58866A156582876.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
^ "27 new Pseudophilautus (firstly: Philautus) • Sri Lankan Shrub Frogs (Rhacophorinae)". Novataxa. July 2011. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
^ Frost, Darrel R. "Pseudophilautus lunatus (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 20, 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Michaela Owens; Amanda Martin; Marcus Rodriguez (June 10, 2015). Gordon Lau (ed.). "Pseudophilautus lunatus (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2005)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved November 20, 2023.

Taxon identifiers
Pseudophilautus lunatus	Wikidata: Q28007833 Wikispecies: Pseudophilautus lunatus AmphibiaWeb: 6500 ASW: Pseudophilautus-lunatus CoL: 78GZM GBIF: 5785925 iNaturalist: 66379 ITIS: 1102298 IUCN: 58866 NCBI: 690699 Observation.org: 956999 Open Tree of Life: 986378
Philautus lunatus	Wikidata: Q2702715 CoL: 4G5HM EoL: 7246811 GBIF: 2423740 ITIS: 775266 Observation.org: 204373 Open Tree of Life: 986378

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