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Pseudophilautus dilmah

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Rhacophoridae

Genus
  
Pseudophilautus

Order
  
Frog

Class
  
Amphibia

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Species

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The Dilmah shrub frog, (Pseudophilautus dilmah) is a species of frog in the Rhacophoridae family, endemic to Sri Lanka. The species was discovered and documented in 2015 by Sri Lankan prominent wildlife researcher and herpetologist Mendis Wickramasinghe and his crew from Loolkandura forest of Central highlands of Sri Lanka. It is distinguished mainly from other shrub frogs by the absence of nuptial pads and anterior and posterior dorsum without horny spinules.

Its natural habitats are wet highland forests of Sri Lanka. As other frogs in the island, it is thought to be threatened by habitat loss and other anthropogenic works.The frog was named after Sri Lanka's finest tea exporting company Dilmah Conservation, for its dedicated efforts to biodiversity conservation on the island.

Taxonomy

It is one of the 87 species of Pseudophilautus and its sister taxon is thought to be Pseudophilautus hankeni.

References

Pseudophilautus dilmah Wikipedia