Animalia > Chordata > Amphibia > Anura > Dicroglossidae > Sphaerotheca > Sphaerotheca brevicepsSphaerotheca brevicepsSynonyms: Pyxicephalus breviceps; Rana breviceps; Systoma breviceps; Tomopterna breviceps Sphaerotheca rolandae (common names: Sri Lanka bullfrog, Roland's burrowing frog, southern burrowing frog, marble sand frog) is a species of frog in the Dicroglossidae family found in Sri Lanka. It is controversial whether the species also occurs in India and Nepal. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, and pastureland.It is threatened by habitat loss. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 16.54 EDGE Score: 2.86 |
| Diet [1] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) |  | | Litters / Year [1] | 1 | | Snout to Vent Length [1] | 2.48 inches (6.3 cm) |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Deccan thorn scrub forests |
India, Sri Lanka |
Indo-Malayan |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Himalayan subtropical pine forests |
India, Bhutan, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Irrawaddy moist deciduous forests |
Myanmar |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests |
Bangladesh, India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Malabar Coast moist forests |
India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northwestern thorn scrub forests |
India, Pakistan |
Indo-Malayan |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Orissa semi-evergreen forests |
India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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South Western Ghats montane rain forests |
India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests |
Sri Lanka |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands |
Bhutan, India, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows |
India, Nepal |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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| Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Himalaya |
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan |
No |
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Indo-Burma |
Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam |
No |
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Western Ghats and Sri Lanka |
India, Sri Lanka |
No |
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Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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