Endangered
Pseudophilautus tanu
Pseudophilautus tanu
Pseudophilautus tanu is a frog in the family Rhacophoridae, endemic to south-western Sri Lanka.
Appearance
Three adult males in the type series measure 13.5–13.9 mm (0.5–0.5 in) in snout–vent length. Females were not reported. The snout is obtusely pointed. The head and body are dorsally pale brown.
Range and habitat
Pseudophilautus tanu is a frog in the family Rhacophoridae, endemic to south-western Sri Lanka. This species is only known from two locations in the Galle District, Beraliya and Kanneliya Forest Reserves.
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 tanu 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 tanu, Wikidata item Q3409809. 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.
