- Philautus maia
Taxobox
name = "Philautus maia"
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Amphibia
ordo =Anura
subordo =Neobatrachia
familia =Rhacophoridae
subfamilia =Rhacophorinae
genus = "Philautus"
binomial = "Philautus maia"
binomial_authority ="Philautus maia" is an extinct species of
Sri Lanka n shrub frogs,cite web | url=http://extinctanimals.proboards22.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=frogs&thread=10217&page=1#41786 | title=Philautus Maia | accessdate=2008-06-20 | work=The Extinction Website] described in 2007,cite web | url=http://species.asu.edu/2008_species04.php | title=Number 4 - Rare Frog Off The Shelf | accessdate=2008-06-20 | work=Top 10 - 2008 | author=IISE | publisher= International Institute for Species Exploration - Arizona State University | date=2008] from a single female museum specimen collected around 1860.cite web | url=http://species.asu.edu/topten2008.php | title=Top 10 New Species | accessdate=2008-06-20 | work=SOS and Top 10 | author=IISE | publisher=International Institute for Species Exploration - Arizona State University | date=2008] It was named Top 4 New Species of 2007 by theArizona State University : "International Institute for Species Exploration".cite web | url=http://species.asu.edu/2008_species04.php | title=Number 4 - Rare Frog Off The Shelf | accessdate=2008-06-20 | work=Top 10 - 2008 | author=IISE | publisher= International Institute for Species Exploration - Arizona State University | date=2008]This species differs from all other Sri Lankan frogs in having a discernible tympanum, having an angle of the snout of about 100 degrees, having a distinct supratympanic fold, having sharp canthal ridges, lacking a ligual papilla, having supernumerary tubercles on fingers but not on toes, lacking a tarsal tubercle, having extensive toe webbing, and having a dark brown reticulation on the posterior surface of the thigh.cite web | url=http://amphibiaweb.org/cgi/amphib_query?where-genus=Philautus&where-species=maia | title=Philautus Maia | accessdate=2008-06-20 | work=Amphibia Web]
The species was discovered from a preserved specimen from the
Natural History Museum ,London .cite web | url=http://extinctanimals.proboards22.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=frogs&thread=10217&page=1#41786 | title=Philautus Maia | accessdate=2008-06-20 | work=The Extinction Website] The species was a single female museum specimen collected around 1860.Had this specimen not been collected in the 19th century, it would possibly have never been known.cite web | url=http://species.asu.edu/topten2008.php | title=Top 10 New Species | accessdate=2008-06-20 | work=SOS and Top 10 | author=IISE | publisher=International Institute for Species Exploration - Arizona State University | date=2008]
References
External Links
* [http://species.asu.edu/ Arizona State University -International Institute for Species Exploration]
* [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/zt01397p015.pdf Meegaskumbara M, Manamendra-Arachchi K, Schneider CJ, Pethiyagoda R. 2007 New species amongst Sri Lanka's extinct shrub frogs (Amphibia: Rhacophoridae: Philautus). Zootaxa 1397:1-15.]
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