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The first amphibian review in Sri Lanka in 1957 identified 35 species. [4] In 1996 the number of amphibian species rose to 53 based on research of museum collections and also a field survey. More than 250 species were proposed based on this field survey by Rohan Pethiyagoda and Kelum Manamendra-Arachchi in 1998.
Frogs of Sri Lanka (115 P) Pages in category "Amphibians of Sri Lanka" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Taruga eques - an endemic amphibian. Sri Lanka has one of the richest diversity of amphibians in the world, containing 122 species of amphibians up to January 2019 with many recent discoveries, with 112 endemic species. [5] 52 species of amphibians in Sri Lanka are threatened, all but one of which are endemic. [citation needed]
Sri Lankan freshwater habitats can be divided into 6 major types - river, stream, lake, pond, villu and paddy field - according to size, depth, rate of flow and type of bottom. Medium-sized rivers are called Oya and fast flowing streams torrential streams are called Dola in Sinhalese. The following list provide the freshwater fauna of Sri Lanka.
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.
Sri Lanka is known to be home for 794 species of hemipterans included to 71 families. Detailed work of Sri Lankan hemipterans are recorded in book Catalogue of Hemiptera of Sri Lanka. [3] Sri Lanka comprises 74 species in 46 genera and 6 families of aphids within order Hemiptera. Two endemic aphid species found on Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka is a tropical island situated close to the southern tip of India. The invertebrate fauna there is large as is common in other tropical regions of the world. There are about 2 million species of arthropods found in the world, with more being discovered every year.