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This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Sri Lanka, with their respective names in Sinhala also listed. There are 125 mammal species in Sri Lanka , of which one is critically endangered, ten are endangered, ten are vulnerable, and three are near threatened.
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
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Sinhalese names usually consists of three parts. The first part is the patronymic name (family name) of the father, ancestor name or 'house name', which often has the suffix ‘-ge’ at the end of it, this is known as the 'Ge' name (ge meaning house in Sinhalese). The second part is the personal name (given name) and the third part is the ...
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Name Species authority Red List Family Soricidae: shrews: Sri Lankan long-tailed shrew: Crocidura miya Phillips, 1929 [19] Sinharaja shrew: Crocidura hikmiya Meegaskumbura, Meegaskumbura, Manamendra-Arachchi, Pethiyagoda, & Schneider, 2007 [20] Pearson's long-clawed shrew: Solisorex pearsoni Thomas, 1924 [21] Jungle shrew: Suncus zeylanicus ...
Sri Lanka is a tropical island situated close to the southern tip of India. It is situated in the middle of Indian Ocean.Because of being an island, Sri Lanka has many endemic freshwater fauna, as well as thousands of marine and brackish water fauna. [1]