Lankanectes corrugatus
Lankanectes corrugatus (common names: Sri Lanka wart frog, corrugated water frog) is a species of frog in the family Nyctibatrachidae.[2] It was once monotypic within the genus Lankanectes,[3] until the second species - Lankanectes pera was described in 2018 from Knuckles Mountain Range.[4] It is endemic to Sri Lanka.[2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Nyctibatrachidae |
| Genus: | Lankanectes |
| Species: | L. corrugatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Lankanectes corrugatus (Peters, 1863) | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Rana corrugata Peters, 1863 | |
L. corrugatus is an aquatic frog species inhabiting slow-moving rivers in marshy areas.[5] It is a common species. Threats to it are agrochemical pollution and wetland reclamation for housing and vegetable farms.[1]
References
- Manamendra-Arachchi, K.; de Silva, A.; Wickramasinghe, D. (2004). "Lankanectes corrugatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004: e.T58324A11766307. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
- Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Lankanectes corrugatus (Peters, 1863)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
- Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Lankanectes Dubois and Ohler, 2001". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
- "A new frog species from rapidly dwindling cloud forest streams of Sri Lanka—Lankanectes pera". Zootaxa 4461(4):519-538. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
- Vitt, Laurie J.; Caldwell, Janalee P. (2014). Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles (4th ed.). Academic Press. pp. 509–510.
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