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

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

Pseudophilautus newtonjayawardanei Wickramasinghe, Vidanapathirana, Rajeev, Ariyarathne, Chanaka, Priyantha, Bandara, and Wickramasinghe, 2013, J. Threatened Taxa, 5: 3843. Holotype: NMSL 2013.05.01 NH,, by original designation. Type locality: "Sripada (Peak Wilderness), Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka (06° 48’ 36” N & 80° 28’ 59” E; 1559 m)". 

English Names

Newton Jayawardane’s Shrub Frog (original publication). 

Distribution

Known only from the vicinity of the type locality (Sripada Peak, Peak Wilderness, Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka,  at elevations of 1800 to 2000 m). 

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, noted that tympana are present in the holotype. 

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