Pseudophilautus sirilwijesundarai
Pseudophilautus sirilwijesundarai (Siril Wijesundara's shrub frog) is a species of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae, endemic to Sri Lanka.
| Siril Wijesundara's shrub frog | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Rhacophoridae |
| Genus: | Pseudophilautus |
| Species: | P. sirilwijesundarai |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudophilautus sirilwijesundarai Wickramasinghe et al, 2013 | |
Its natural habitats are wet lowland forests of Sri Lanka. It is threatened by habitat loss. It is one of the 8 species of rhacophorids that was discovered from Adam's Peak recently.[1]
Etymology
The frog was named after Dr. Siril Wijesundara, a leading Sri Lankan scientist and naturalist.
Description
The male measures 22.3 mm and 32.5 mm female.
Original publication
- Wickramasinghe, Vidanapathirana, Rajeev, Ariyarathne, Chanaka, Priyantha, Bandara & Wickramasinghe, 2013 : Eight new species of Pseudophilautus (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Sripada World Heritage Site (Peak Wilderness), a local amphibian hotspot in Sri Lanka. J Threatened Taxa, vol. 5, p. 3789-3920 (full text).
gollark: Well, it's deterministic given the same inputs.
gollark: It's just an implementation of Langrange interpolation, which is simple enough that I could implement it in about 15 lines of JS based on Wikipedia.
gollark: Well, I have a program for the function-generating bit.
gollark: Thanks to Mafs™ you can algorithmically generate various sorts of function which produces the values the question specifies for x = 1, 2, 3 and whatever it says, but then some wildly different answer for anything else.
gollark: I felt it was worth mentioning generally, though.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.