Endangered
Pseudophilautus microtympanum
Pseudophilautus microtympanum
Pseudophilautus microtympanum is a frog in the family Rhacophoridae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the central hills of Sri Lanka. Its natural habitat are both closed and open canopy habitats. Sub-adults and juveniles are more often found in grassland and disturbed habitats, whereas adult frogs are usually found in closed-canopy habitats.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Pseudophilautus microtympanum, also known as Gunther's bubble-nest frog or small-eared shrub frog, is a frog in the family Rhacophoridae.
In crisis
It is threatened by habitat loss, agrochemical pollution, and the desiccation of its habitat.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Pseudophilautus microtympanum 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 microtympanum, Wikidata item Q28061137. 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.
