Pseudophilautus nasutus

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AMPHIBIA	ANURA	RHACOPHORIDAE

Scientific Name:	Pseudophilautus nasutus
Species Authority:	(Günther, 1869 "1868")
Synonym/s:	Ixalus nasutus Günther, 1869 "1868" Philautus nasutus Kirtisinghe, 1957

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)
Contributor/s:
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.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species is an extinct Sri Lankan endemic, known only from the general type locality of "Ceylon [=Sri Lanka]" (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda 2005). It is not possible to produce a distribution map for this species because the exact location of the type locality is not known. Specimens previously attributed to this species from India (Krishnamurthi and Shakunthala 1993) are now believed to be a separate taxon (Biju 2001), and specimens reported by Karunaratne (1998) are believed to belong to a different species (K. Manamendra-Arachchi pers. comm.)
Countries:	Regionally extinct: Sri Lanka
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Population [top]

Population:	It is known only from the holotype. There have been no records since the species was described in 1869, and it is now believed to be extinct. Recent, extensive field surveys of the amphibian fauna of Sri Lanka have not rediscovered this frog.

Population:

It is known only from the holotype. There have been no records since the species was described in 1869, and it is now believed to be extinct. Recent, extensive field surveys of the amphibian fauna of Sri Lanka have not rediscovered 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 cause for the species' extinction is not known, but presumably habitat loss was a contributing factor.

Major Threat(s):

The cause 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.

Conservation Actions:

It has not been recorded from any protected areas.

Citation:	Kelum Manamendra-Arachchi, Anslem de Silva 2004. Pseudophilautus nasutus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 May 2013.
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