Taruga fastigo

Taruga fastigo
Conservation status
	Endangered (IUCN3.1Q)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Rhacophoridae
Genus:	Taruga
Species:	T. fastigo
Binomial name
	Taruga fastigo; (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2001)
Synonyms
	Polypedates fastigo Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2001; Taruga fastigo Meegaskumbura, Meegaskumbura, Bowatte, Manamendra-Arachchi, Pethiyagoda, Hanken, and Schneider, 2010;

Taruga fastigo is a frog. It lives in Sri Lanka. Scientists have seen it in exactly one place: Morningside Estate, near Sinharaja Forest Reserve, 1060 m above sea level.^[1]^[2]^[3] The adult male frog is 35.3 to 39.5 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is about 54.8 to 63.9 mm long. The skin of the frog's back is brown or dark green in color. There is a mark on the frog's back that looks like an hourglass. There are bumps on the edges of the hourglass and near the rear end.^[2]

There are fewer of these frogs than there were. This is because human beings change the places where the frogs live. Human beings cut forests to get wood to build with and build farms.^[2]

Name

Scientists name this frog fastigo because of its pointed nose.^[2]

First paper

Manamendra-Arachchi, K.; R. Pethiyagoda (2001). "Polypedates fastigo, a new tree frog (Ranidae: Rhacophorinae) from Sri Lanka. Journal of South Asian Natural History". Colombo. 5: 191–199.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Taruga fastigo (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2001)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 Dayupathi Eranda Nipunika Mandawala (March 12, 2021). Michelle S. Koo (ed.). "Taruga fastigo (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2001)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
↑ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Long-snouted Tree-frog: Taruga eques". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1. p. e.T58947A156586680. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T58947A156586680.en. 58947. Retrieved June 8, 2023.

[AMNH-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Taruga fastigo (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2001)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved June 8, 2023.

[Amph-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 Dayupathi Eranda Nipunika Mandawala (March 12, 2021). Michelle S. Koo (ed.). "Taruga fastigo (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2001)". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved June 8, 2023.

[IUCN-3] IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Long-snouted Tree-frog: Taruga eques". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1. p. e.T58947A156586680. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T58947A156586680.en. 58947. Retrieved June 8, 2023.

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