Endangered
Pseudophilautus conniffae
Pseudophilautus conniffae
Pseudophilautus conniffae is a frog in the family Rhacophoridae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Between forelimbs, there is a large, dark brown square-shaped blotch on mid-dorsum. Black and white patches are found on anterior and posterior surfaces of thigh and posterior flank. Dorsum light brown with dark brown patches.
Adult male is 23.5 mm (0.93 in) long in size.
Range and habitat
The species is confined to the southwestern wet zone of Sri Lanka.
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
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Pseudophilautus conniffae 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 Pseudophilautus conniffae, Wikidata item Q61719815. 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.
