Lankanectes
Sign in to saveLankanectes is a genus of frogs in the family Nyctibatrachidae that is endemic to Sri Lanka. It is the only member of the Nyctibatrachidae to be found outside India and the only member of the subfamily Lankanectinae.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- monotypic taxon
- Parent taxon
- Nyctibatrachidae
- Image
- Lankanectes corrugatus.jpg
Show 4 more facts
- Commons category
- Lankanectes
- taxon name
- Lankanectes
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- Sri Lanka Wart Frogs
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
1 sectionsContents
- References
Lankanectes is a genus of frogs in the family Nyctibatrachidae that is endemic to Sri Lanka. It is the only member of the Nyctibatrachidae to be found outside India and the only member of the subfamily Lankanectinae.
There are two known species in this genus: Lankanectes corrugatus (Peters, 1863) Lankanectes pera (Senevirathne et al, 2018)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lankanectes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.