Pseudophilautus asankai (Manamendra-Arachchi & Pethiyagoda, 2005)

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Pseudophilautus asankai, commonly called Asanka's shrub frog (named after Asanka Goonewardena), is a species of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest. It lives on shrubs in places where there is a break in the canopy large enough to allow sufficient sunlight. The adult male frog measures about 21.2 – 23.4 mm in snout-vent length. There is fringed skin on the toes of the front feet and webbed skin on the toes of the hind feet. The skin of the dorsum and tops of the legs is ash-brown in colour. The toes of all four feet, parts of the legs, and the ventrum are yellow in colour. Parts of the frog's middle and back legs have small yellow spots. Like other frogs in Pseudophilautus, P. asankai undergoes direct development. Small froglets hatch out of eggs without ever undergoing a tadpole stage. It is threatened by habitat loss. For many years, scientists believed that P. asankai and P.

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Identity & source status

Scientific name

Pseudophilautus asankai (Manamendra-Arachchi & Pethiyagoda, 2005)

Name authority

(Manamendra-Arachchi & Pethiyagoda, 2005)

Rank

species

Accepted status

accepted

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Anura

Family

Rhacophoridae

Genus

Pseudophilautus

Extinction status

Recorded extant

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
2. kingdomAnimalia
3. phylumChordata
4. subphylumVertebrata
5. infraphylumGnathostomata
6. parvphylumOsteichthyes
7. megaclassTetrapoda
8. classAmphibia
9. orderAnura
10. familyRhacophoridae Hoffman, 1932
11. subfamilyRhacophorinae Hoffman, 1932
12. genusPseudophilautus Laurent, 1943
13. speciesPseudophilautus asankai (Manamendra-Arachchi & Pethiyagoda, 2005)

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Pseudophilautus. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

Browse 395 records assigned to Rhacophoridae.

Names & synonyms

Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.

Source literature & publication evidence

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1. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=1102280 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:4P6ZX. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.