Pseudophilautus hankeni

Pseudophilautus hankeni is a frog.  It lives in Sri Lanka, in the Knuckles Mountains. People have seen it on mountains higher than 1200 meters over sea level.

The adult male frog is about 19.2 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is about 20.0 mm long.  The skin of the frog's back is cream-white in color with light brown marks and a dark brown line between the eyes with two dots behind it. There are two light brown bands down the body. The sides fo the body are lighter in color with some green color. The throat and belly and webbed skin on the feet are light in color. This frog hatches out of eggs as a small frog. It never swims as a tadpole.

People have seen this frog sitting in shrubs 1-2 meters above the ground. The frogs live in forests, in places where humans have cut down the large trees and they grew back, and in places where humans cut down the large trees and they did not grow back.

Some scientists think this frog is the same species as Pseudophilautus dilmah.

Scientists named this frog after amphibian scientist Jim Hanken, of Harvard.

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Category:Frogs of Asia