Endangered
Nannophrys naeyakai
Nannophrys naeyakai
Nannophrys naeyakai is a frog in the family Dicroglossidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Adult males measure 24–36 mm (0.9–1.4 in) and adult females 32–44 mm (1.3–1.7 in) in snout–vent length. Skin is somewhat rough dorsally with warty pustules on the flanks. The upper surfaces are brown with yellow-white marbling.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Sri Lanka, where it is only known from two localities in Ampara and Monaragala Districts.
This species is found in the Kokagala Forest Reserve.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Calling males and egg sites define most frog field work. A species known from one ridge is as narrow as it sounds.
Eggs and damp skin make amphibians quick to vanish from a drained wetland or a forest stripped of litter.
In crisis
This species is quite common at its two known locations, but searches at other hilltops in eastern Sri Lanka have not revealed new populations. Threats to its habitat include changing land use practices (i.e., burning of the grassland, felling of trees) that reduce water retention and eventually impact the small streams that this species depend on.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Nannophrys naeyakai 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 Nannophrys naeyakai, Wikidata item Q3335691. 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.
