Pseudophilautus zimmeri

species of Amphibia

Pseudophilautus zimmeri is a frog. It lived in Sri Lanka. Scientists have seen it in exactly one place: Galle, where Sri Lanka's land meets the ocean.[2][3][1]

Pseudophilautus zimmeri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Rhacophoridae
Genus: Pseudophilautus
Species:
P. zimmeri
Binomial name
Pseudophilautus zimmeri
(Ahl, 1927)
Synonyms[2]
  • Rhacophorus zimmeri Ahl, 1927
  • Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) zimmeri Ahl, 1931
  • Staurois zimmeri Forcart, 1946
  • Philautus zimmeri Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2005
  • Pseudophilautus zimmeri Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009

This frog is extinct. Every frog in this species is dead. Scientists believe that this is because human beings changed the places where the frog lived too much.[3]

One adult male frog was 31.6 mm long from nose to rear end.[3]

First paper

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  • Manamendra-Arachchi K; Pethiyagoda R (2005). "The Sri Lankan shrub-frogs of the genus Philautus Gistel, 1848 (Ranidae:Rhacophorinae), with description of 27 new species". Raffles Bull Zool Suppl. 12: 163–303. Retrieved October 25, 2023.

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Pseudophilautus zimmeri". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. p. e.T58939A156586253. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T58939A156586253.en. 58939. Retrieved October 25, 2023.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Pseudophilautus zimmeri (Ahl, 1927)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved October 25, 2023.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Krystal Gong (March 30, 2009). Kellie Whittaker (ed.). "Pseudophilautus zimmeri (Ahl, 1927)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved October 25, 2023.