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 | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Rhacophoridae |
Genus: | Pseudophilautus |
Species: | P. zimmeri
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Binomial name | |
Pseudophilautus zimmeri (Ahl, 1927)
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Synonyms[2] | |
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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
change- 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
change- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 2.0 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.
- ↑ 3.0 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.