Endangered
Microhyla karunaratnei
Microhyla karunaratnei
Microhyla karunaratnei is a narrow-mouthed frog in the family Microhylidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Adult males measure 16–17 mm (0.6–0.7 in) and adult females, based on a single specimen, about 19 mm (0.7 in) in snout–vent length. The dorsum is pinkish grey-brown, and there is a blackish lateral stripe. There is a dark brown mid-dorsal marking, but this is indistinct in some specimens.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to southern Sri Lanka.
It occurs in the Sinharaja Forest Reserve.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Narrow-mouthed frogs are often sit-and-wait predators of ants and termites. Breeding sites range from foam in a burrow to water held in plants.
Calling males and egg sites define most frog field work. A species known from one ridge is as narrow as it sounds.
In crisis
It is threatened by habitat loss caused by expanding cardamom plantations and by agricultural pollution.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Microhyla karunaratnei is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Microhyla karunaratnei, Wikidata item Q2240875. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
