Pseudophilautus limbus (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2005)
Philautus limbus Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2005, Raffles Bull. Zool., Suppl., 12: 242. Holotype: WHT 2700, by original designation. Type locality: "Haycock (Hiniduma), alt. 560 m (06° 20′ N, 80° 18′ E)", Sri Lanka.
Pseudophilautus limbus — Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 53: 519. Provisional change by implication.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Known only from the type locality (Haycock [Hiniduma], southwestern Sri Lanka, 560 m elevation).
Comment
Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2005, Raffles Bull. Zool., Suppl., 12: 244, noted this species to be similar to Philautus Leucorhinus and Philautus folicola. 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: 526. Bopage, Wewalwala, Krvavac, Jovanovic, Safarek, and Pushpamal, 2011, Salamandra, 47: 173-177, reported the species in lowland forest in the Kanneliya Forest of southwestern Sri Lanka.
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