Endangered
Pseudophilautus puranappu
Pseudophilautus puranappu
Pseudophilautus puranappu (Puran Appu's shrub frog) is a frogs in the family Rhacophoridae, endemic to Sri Lanka.
Appearance
The adult male frog measures 33.6 – 34.2 mm in snout-vent length and the adult female frog 51.5 mm. The skin of the dorsum is light brown in color with a dark red stripe from the snout to the vent that can take the shape of an hourglass. The flanks can be pink or yellow in color.
Range and habitat
Pseudophilautus puranappu (Puran Appu's shrub frog) is a frogs in the family Rhacophoridae, endemic to Sri Lanka.
The type locality — the place tied to the name-bearing specimen — is Sripada Peak in the Peak Wilderness, between 1800 and 2100 meters above sea level.
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
It is threatened by habitat loss, that scientists attribute to urbanization, increased agriculture and grazing, and logging.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Pseudophilautus puranappu 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 puranappu, Wikidata item Q13409368. 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.
