Pseudophilautus zal

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AMPHIBIA	ANURA	RHACOPHORIDAE

Scientific Name:	Pseudophilautus zal
Species Authority:	(Manamendra-Arachchi & Pethiyagoda, 2005)
Synonym/s:	Philautus zal Manamendra-Arachchi & Pethiyagoda, 2005

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Extinct     ver 3.1
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 50 years, and extensive searches over the last ten years have failed to locate this species.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This recently described species is a Sri Lankan endemic, known only from the general type locality of "Ceylon" (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda 2005). It is not possible to produce a distribution map for this species because the exact location of the type collection is not known.
Countries:	Regionally extinct: Sri Lanka
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Population [top]

Population:

It is known only from the holotype and two paratypes. There have been no records since the type collection (sometime before 1947) and the species is now believed to be extinct, because recent, extensive field surveys of the amphibian fauna of Sri Lanka have failed to rediscover this frog.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	The habitat requirements of this species are not known. It presumably bred by direct development.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):

The reason for the species' extinction is not known, but presumably habitat loss was a contributing factor.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:

It has not been recorded from any protected areas.

Bibliography [top]

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.