Pseudophilautus dayawansai Wickramasinghe, Vidanapathirana, Rajeev, Ariyarathne, Chanaka, Priyantha, Bandara, Wickramasinghe, 2013

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Pseudophilautus > Species: Pseudophilautus dayawansai

Pseudophilautus dayawansai Wickramasinghe, Vidanapathirana, Rajeev, Ariyarathne, Chanaka, Priyantha, Bandara, and Wickramasinghe, 2013, J. Threatened Taxa, 5: 3806. Holotype: NMSL 2013.02.01 NH, by original designation. Type locality: "Sripada (Peak Wilderness), Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka (06° 48’ 30” N & 80° 29’ 19” E; 1679 m)". 

English Names

Dayawansa’s Shrub Frog (original publication). 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Sripada Peak, Peak Wilderness, Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka, 06° 48’ 30” N & 80° 29’ 19” E; 1679 m elevation). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Sri Lanka

Endemic: Sri Lanka

Comment

Contrary to the original description, Batuwita, De Silva, and Udugampala, 2019, J. Threatened Taxa, 11: 13126, reported vomerine teeth in the holotype. 

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