Endangered
Pseudophilautus schmarda
Pseudophilautus schmarda
Pseudophilautus schmarda is a frog in the family Rhacophoridae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Adult males measure 18–27 mm (0.7–1.1 in) and adult females, based on only two specimens, 20–30 mm (0.8–1.2 in) in snout–vent length. The snout is obtusely pointed. Skin of the upper side is rough with glandular folds, glandular warts, and horn-like spinules.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the central hills of Sri Lanka and is known from the Peak Wilderness Sanctuary, Agra Bopath, Horton Plains, and Pedro.
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
Additional potential threats are forest fires and agro-chemical pollution.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Pseudophilautus schmarda 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 schmarda, Wikidata item Q28061766. 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.
