Pseudophilautus silus

Range and habitat

It is endemic to southern Sri Lanka and known from the both sides of the Horton Plains (near Agarapatana and Haputale). Its natural habitats are closed-canopy forests but it also occurs in open, anthropogenic habitats.

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 an uncommon species threatened by the encroachment of tea plantations, firewood collection, expanding human settlements, and agro-chemical pollution.

Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.

Pseudophilautus silus 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 silus, Wikidata item Q28061905. 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.