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Pseudophilautus silvaticus (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2005)
Philautus silvaticus Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2005, Raffles Bull. Zool., Suppl., 12: 285. Holotype: WHT 3295, by original designation. Type locality: "Handapan Ell Plains (near Suriyakanda), alt. 1270 m (06° 26′ 42″ N, 080° 36′ 35″ E)", Sri Lanka.
Pseudophilautus silvaticus — Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 53: 519. Provisional arrangement and by implication.
Common Names
Forest Shrub Frog (de Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 116).
Distribution
Known only from the Sinharaja World Heritage Site, 510–1270 m elevation, southern Sri Lanka.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Sri Lanka
Endemic: Sri Lanka
Comment
Resembles Philautus procax and Philautus abundus according to the original publication. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 533. de Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 116, provided a brief account and color photograph. See comment by Batuwita, De Silva, and Udugampala, 2019, J. Threatened Taxa, 11: 13126, on the presence of nuptial pads in males. Ellepola, Herath, Manamendra-Arachchi, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, Pethiyagoda, and Meegaskumbura, 2021, PLoS One, 16(10: e0258594): 10, noted that on molecular criteria alone this nominal species is likely conspecific with Pseudophilautus limbus.
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