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Pictures Sri Lanka bubble-nest frog: Pseudophilautus adspersus: Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka Last collected in 1886. The cause of extinction is unknown, but habitat loss due to agriculture has been suggested. [110] Pseudophilautus dimbullae: Dimbula, Sri Lanka Known only from holotypes collected in 1933.
In 1938, the paleontologist Paulus Deraniyagala named a new prehistoric subspecies of lion, Panthera leo sinhaleyus, based on a single left lower carnassial (M1) tooth excavated from deposits in Kuruwita as the holotype and a damaged right lower canine tooth from the same location as a "metatype". [2]
List of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene; List of European species extinct in the Holocene. List of extinct animals of the British Isles; List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene. List of Antillian and Bermudan animals extinct in the Holocene; List of Oceanian animals extinct in the Holocene. List of Australia-New Guinea ...
Lists of animals. Lists of amphibians by region; Lists of birds by region; List of bears; Lists of breeds; Lists of cats; Lists of dogs; Lists of elephants; Lists of snakes; Lists of extinct animals. Lists of extinct animals of the British Isles; Lists of Fauna of Denmark; Lists of horses; Lists of insects of Great Britain; Lists of Lepidoptera ...
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 35 extinct species, 146 possibly extinct species, two extinct in the wild species, and one possibly extinct in the wild species of amphibians. [1] [2]
Sri Lanka is known to be home to 794 species of Hemipterans. Detailed work of Sri Lankan hemipterans are recorded in the book Catalogue of Hemiptera of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka comprises 74 species in 46 genera and 6 families of aphids within the order Hemiptera. 2 endemic aphid species are found on Sri Lanka
The shy Australian animals died after only a century of European settlement. Despite the world's last captive thylacine dying in 1936, the secretive animal wasn't declared extinct until 1986.
Sri Lanka spurfowl, Sri Lanka junglefowl, Sri Lanka grey hornbill, red-faced malkoha, orange-billed babbler, Sri Lanka blue magpie are some of them. [ 5 ] 20 percent of Sri Lanka's endemic freshwater fishes inhabit in the waters of Gin River and Nilwala River , which sourced by the springs of Kanneliya-Dediyagala-Nakiyadeniya.