Critically Endangered
Pseudophilautus lunatus
Pseudophilautus lunatus
Pseudophilautus lunatus is a frog in the family Rhacophoridae (order Anura), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
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.
Range and habitat
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss. Scientists attribute this to habitat loss for the sake of grazing and logging and because of pollution and lethality from fertilizers and pesticides.
The type locality — the place tied to the name-bearing specimen — is Handapan Ell Plains, in the eastern part of the Sinharaja World Heritage Site, 1270 meters above sea level. 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 t.
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 frog is critically endangered. Even so, scientists also report that the population is small but appears to be holding steady instead of declining.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Pseudophilautus lunatus is Critically 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 lunatus, Wikidata item Q28007833. 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.
