Pseudophilautus hypomelas
| Kingdom |
Phylum |
Class |
Order |
Family |
| ANIMALIA |
CHORDATA |
AMPHIBIA |
ANURA |
RHACOPHORIDAE |
| Scientific Name: |
Pseudophilautus hypomelas |
| Species Authority: |
(Günther, 1876) |
| Synonym/s: |
Ixalus hypomelas Günther, 1876
Philautus hypomelas Rao, 1937
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Assessment Information
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| Red List Category & Criteria: |
Extinct
ver 3.1
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| Year Published: |
2004 |
| Assessor/s: |
Kelum Manamendra-Arachchi, Anslem de Silva |
| Reviewer/s: |
Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson and Neil Cox) |
Justification:
Listed as Extinct because it has not been recorded for over 100 years, and extensive searches over the last ten years have failed to locate this species.
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Geographic Range
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| Range Description: |
This species is endemic to Sri Lanka, and is known only from the imprecise type locality of "Ceylon [=Sri Lanka]" (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda 2005). It is not possible to map this species because the exact type locality is not known.
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| Countries: |
Regionally extinct:
Sri Lanka
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| Range Map: |
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Population
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| Population: |
It is known only from the type series. There have been no sightings of the species since it was described in 1876, and it is now believed to be extinct, because recent, extensive field surveys of the amphibian fauna of Sri Lanka have not rediscovered this frog.
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Habitat and Ecology
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| Habitat and Ecology: |
The habitat requirements of the species are not known. It presumably bred by direct development.
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| Systems: |
Terrestrial |
| Major Threat(s): |
The causes of the species' extinction are not known, but presumably habitat loss was a contributing factor.
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Conservation Actions
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| Conservation Actions: |
It has not been recorded from any protected areas.
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Bibliography
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Bossuyt, F. and Dubois, A. 2001. A review of the frog genus Philautus Gistel, 1848 (Amphibia, Anura, Ranidae, Rhacophorinae). Zeylanica: 1-112.
IUCN. 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 23 November 2004.
Manamendra-Arachchi, K. and Pethiyagoda, R. 2005. The Sri Lankan shrub-frogs of the genus Philautus Laurent, 1943 (Ranidae, Rhacophorinae), with description of 27 new species. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement: 163-303.
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