Uperodon obscurus (Günther, 1864)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae > Genus: Uperodon > Species: Uperodon obscurus

Callula obscura Günther, 1864, Rept. Brit. India: 438. Holotype: BMNH 1858.11.28.42, according to Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 93, now reregistered as 1947.2.11.20 according to museum records. Type locality: "Ceylon" (= Sri Lanka).

Ramanella obscuraParker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 91.

Uperodon obscurus — Peloso, Frost, Richards, Rodrigues, Donnellan, Matsui, Raxworthy, Biju, Lemmon, Lemmon, and Wheeler, 2016, Cladistics, 32: 140. 

English Names

Sri Lanka Dot Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 92).

Ceylonese Narrow-mouthed Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 98).

Brown Pug-snout Frog (de Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 83).

Sri Lankan Globular Frog (Garg, Senevirathne, Wijayathilaka, Phuge, Deuti, Manamendra-Arachchi, Meegaskumbura, and Biju, 2018, Zootaxa, 4384: 32). 

Distribution

Low elevation hills Central, North Western, Sabaragamuwa, Southern and Uva Provinces, Sri Lanka, 460–1220 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Sri Lanka

Endemic: Sri Lanka

Comment

See accounts by Kirtisinghe, 1957, Amph. Ceylon: 82-83, and Dutta and Manamendra-Arachchi, 1996, Amph. Fauna Sri Lanka: 44-48. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 65, provided relevant literature and range. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 626-627. Kuramoto and Joshy, 2008, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 105: 14–18, described the advertisement call. de Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 83, provided a brief account and color photograph. See account by Garg, Senevirathne, Wijayathilaka, Phuge, Deuti, Manamendra-Arachchi, Meegaskumbura, and Biju, 2018, Zootaxa, 4384: 33–35. Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, Bandara, Rajapakse, Pethiyagoda, and Meegaskumbura, 2018, Global Ecol. Conserv., 16 (e00496): 1–13, reported on conservation status, range via niche modeling, DNA barcoding, and acoustics. 

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