Animalia > Chordata > Amphibia > Anura > Dicroglossidae > Minervarya > Minervarya greenii

Minervarya greenii (Hainan wart frog)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Zakerana greenii (common names: montane frog, Sri Lanka paddy field frog) is a species of frog that is endemic to the hills of central Sri Lanka. It lives in wetland habitats within montane tropical moist forests. It is threatened by habitat loss, pollution, desiccation of wetlands, forest fires as well as predation by introduced trout.
View Wikipedia Record: Minervarya greenii

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Minervarya greenii

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
62
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 13.62
EDGE Score: 4.76
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Litters / Year [1]  1
Snout to Vent Length [1]  1.968 inches (5 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Sri Lanka montane rain forests Sri Lanka Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Central Highlands of Sri Lanka World Heritage Site 135938 Sri Lanka  
Horton Plains National Park II 7809 Sri Lanka  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka India, Sri Lanka Yes

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Oliveira, Brunno Freire; São-Pedro, Vinícius Avelar; Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Penone, Caterina; C. Costa, Gabriel. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Sci. Data.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0