Endangered
Pseudophilautus semiruber
Pseudophilautus semiruber
Pseudophilautus semiruber, known as Annandale's shrub frog, is a frog in the family Rhacophoridae that is endemic to Sri Lanka.
Appearance
Snout to vent length 12–13.4 mm. In lateral and dorsal view snout oval shaped. Dorsal and lateral parts of head and body, and lower part of flank, smooth.
Pseudophilautus semiruber is one of the smallest frog species in Sri Lanka and it is also one of the smallest frogs, measuring less than 15 mm in snout-to-vent length (diminutive species).
A single specimen of this species was first discovered in 1911 and described by Annandale in 1913, referring to it as Ixalus semiruber.
Range and habitat
The species is probably restricted to the jungle forests of this area and is probably under-represented in collections because its small size may have led to it being overlooked as the juvenile of a larger Pseudophilautus species. Pseudophilautus semiruber, known as Annandale's shrub frog, is a frog in the family Rhacophoridae that is endemic to Sri Lanka. Extensive field research conducted by Madhava Meegaskumbura in 2005, targeting molecular characterization of the Sri Lankan shrub frog species, lead to the re-discovery of this species from near a small forest reserve (Agra-Bopath) close to the Horton Plains National Park, 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 semiruber 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 semiruber, Wikidata item Q7255271. 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.
