Indosylvirana serendipi
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Sri Lankan Golden-backed Frog
This is the smaller cousin to Indosyvirana temporalis, which has a much larger range on Sri Lanka. This species was described only in 2014 and is known only from a small area in the southwest lowlands.
Online references:
- Indosylvirana serendipi account on AmphibiaWeb
- Indosylvirana serendipi account on iNaturalist
- Indosylvirana serendipi account on Amphibian Species of the World
- Ranidae overview on Amphibians of Sri Lanka
- S.D. Biju, Sonali Garg, Stephen Mahony, Nayana Wijayathilaka, Gayani Senevirathne, and Madhava Meegaskumbra, 2014. DNA barcoding, phylogeny and systematics of Golden-backed frogs (Hylarana, Ranidae) of the Western Ghats-Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot, with the description of seven new species