Polypedates cruciger

The Sri Lanka whipping frog or common hour-glass tree frog (Polypedates cruciger) is a frog. It lives in Sri Lanka.[2][1] People have seen them as high as 1600 meters above sea level.[3]

Polypedates cruciger
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Rhacophoridae
Genus: Polypedates
Species:
P. cruciger
Binomial name
Polypedates cruciger
Blyth, 1852
Synonyms[2]
  • Polypedates cruciger Blyth, 1852
  • Polypedates biscutiger Peters, 1871
  • Rhacophorus cruciger Cope, 1887
  • Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) cruciger Ahl, 1931
  • Rhacophorus leucomystax cruciger Wolf, 1936
  • Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) kampeni Ahl, 1931
  • Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) leucomystax Ahl, 1931
  • Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) leucomystax leucomystax Wolf, 1936
  • Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) maculatus biscutiger Dubois, 1987
  • Rhacophorus cruciger cruciger Herrmann, 1993

This frog can live in many different places, including forests that are growing back, banana farms, gardens, and buildings. Scientists have not seen them in forests that have never been cut.[3]

Scientists say this frog is not in danger of dying out because it lives in such a large place and because it is good at living in places that humans have changed.[3]

Scientists used to think this was the same species as Polypedates pseudocruciger, which lives in India's Western Ghat mountains.[3]

References
  1. "Polypedates cruciger Blyth, 1852". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved February 4, 2024.
  2. Frost, Darrel R. "Polypedates cruciger Blyth, 1852". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved February 4, 2024.
  3. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Common Hour-glass Tree-frog: Polypedates cruciger". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T58943A156586422. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T58943A156586422.en. Retrieved February 4, 2024.
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