Hylarana serendipi Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, and Meegaskumbura, 2014

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Hylarana > Species: Hylarana serendipi

Hylarana serendipi Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, and Meegaskumbura, 2014, Contr. Zool., Amsterdam, 83: 292. Holotype: DZ 1247, by original designation. Type locality: "Kudawa, Sinharaja, Ratnapura dist., Sri Lanka".  

Indosylvirana serendipi — Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 90: 190. 

Hylarana serendipi — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 501, by implication.

English Names

Sri Lankan Golden-backed Frog (original publication). 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Kudawa, Sinharaja, Ratnapura District, Sri Lanka) in lowland tropical evergreen forest. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Sri Lanka

Endemic: Sri Lanka

Comment

In the Hylarana temporalis group according to the original publication. 

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