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Amphibia · Anura

Pseudophilautus femoralisGünther, 1864

Green Bush Frog

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A frog reaching 24 mm snout to vent.

Also called Leaf-nesting Shrub Frog, Plain Green Bubble-nest Frog, Plain Green Bush Frog.

AmphibiaAnuraRhacophoridaePseudophilautus

We do not have enough on this species yet

Catalogue of Life records this animal’s name, its family and where it sits in the tree of life. Beyond that, only 12 facts are on record — no diet, no lifespan, nothing we would be willing to publish as an entry.

So this page waits here rather than pretending to be one. It is not listed and not submitted to search engines. If you know this animal and can point us at a published source, we would rather have it right than have it soon.

Body length across Rhacophoridae

Longer than only 18% of all species in Rhacophoridae anyone has measured.

18% of 339 species are smaller82% larger
13.4 mmthe whole family, smallest to largest128.2 mm

The bar is the rank itself: its length is the share of the family this animal exceeds. The chart below is the family’s real spread, on a logarithmic scale because body length here runs from 13.4 to 128.2 mm. The solid rule is this animal. Every bar is a count of real species, and nothing on this figure is estimated.

What is known

12 sourced facts, each taken from a named scientific dataset. How to read these.

Cited from a dataset unless a row is marked otherwise.

2 pairs of these figures disagree

Length snout to vent (adult female mean) is given as 28.3, and Length snout to vent (greatest recorded) as 24.1 — but an average female cannot be longer than the longest recorded. They come from different sources and both are shown exactly as those sources give them.

Length snout to vent (adult male mean) is given as 26.3, and Length snout to vent (greatest recorded) as 24.1 — but an average male cannot be longer than the longest recorded. They come from different sources and both are shown exactly as those sources give them.

Standing in the world

Conservation status
Endangered
Population trend
Decreasing

as reported by the IUCN Red List

Size

Length snout to vent · greatest recordeddisputed
24.1mm0.9 in

snout-to-vent length, as this source reports for Anura

Length snout to vent · adult female meandisputed
28.3mm1 in

mean adult female snout-to-vent length

Length snout to vent · adult male meandisputed
26.3mm1 in

mean adult male snout-to-vent length

How it lives

Eats arthropods
Unknown

a blank flag in this source means unrecorded, not absent

Eats vertebrates
Unknown
Eats plant matter
Unknown

Breeding

Average clutch
22

the largest reported — Bahir, Meegaskumbura, Manamendra-Arachchi, Schneider, and Pethiyagoda, 2005, Raffles Bull. Zool., 12:350

Naming and history

Described by
Günther
Moved to another genus · since it was first described
Yes
Described in
1864

What nobody knows

These are not gaps in our research. No scientific dataset records them for this species — and saying so is information you cannot get from a reference that simply leaves a field out.

  • Still living
  • Length snout to vent · adult mean
  • Length nose to tail · greatest recorded
  • Female length · mean, nose to tail
  • Length nose to tail · adult male mean
  • Length nose to tail · adult mean
  • Largest female · snout to vent
  • Largest male · snout to vent
  • Largest female · shell length
  • Largest male · shell length
  • Hatchling length · snout to vent
  • Hatchling length · nose to tail
  • Largest juvenile · snout to vent
  • Largest juvenile · shell length
  • Egg length
  • Egg width
  • Body mass · greatest
  • Body mass · a typical adult
  • Body mass · adult female, mean
  • Body mass at hatching
  • Longest recorded life
  • Preferred body temperature · chosen in a laboratory gradient
  • Body temperature when active · measured in the wild
  • Diet
  • How it hunts
  • Active
  • Where it lives
  • Reproduction
  • How the young develop
  • Gestation or incubation
  • Smallest clutch recorded
  • Largest clutch recorded
  • Mean clutch · smallest reported
  • Mean clutch · largest reported
  • Clutches in a year
  • Clutches a year · fewest
  • Clutches a year · most
  • First breeds from · youngest recorded
  • First breeds by · oldest recorded
  • Hatchling length · smallest recorded
  • Hatchling length · largest recorded
  • Age at first breeding · female
  • Mature from · youngest recorded
  • Mature by · oldest recorded
  • Size at maturity · smallest recorded
  • Size at maturity · largest recorded
  • Venomous
  • Fangs
  • Body temp in the wild · lowest mean recorded
  • Body temp in the wild · highest mean recorded
  • Limbs
  • Colour on the back
  • Pattern on the back
  • Pupil
  • Sex decided by
  • Status assessed · the year the Red List last looked
  • Red List criteria
  • Region
  • Biome
  • Active season · shortest recorded
  • Active season · longest recorded
  • Density · lowest recorded
  • Density · highest recorded
  • Home range · largest recorded
  • Suborder
  • Infraorder
  • Subspecies
  • Type locality
  • Habitat
  • Active in
  • Mainland or island
  • Lowest it lives · above sea level
  • Highest it lives · above sea level
  • Range size

Others in Rhacophoridae

Sources

  1. Moura, M. R. et al. TetrapodTraits: a database of 33,281 tetrapod species. Used under CC BY 4.0. Observed values only; this encyclopedia does not publish its imputed predictions.
  2. GBIF Secretariat. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Used under CC BY 4.0. Common names aggregated from constituent checklists.
  3. Catalogue of Life (dataset 3LR), used under CC BY.
  4. Oliveira, B.F. et al. (2017). AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Scientific Data 4:170123. Used under CC BY 4.0.
  5. Huang, N. et al. (2023). Amphibian traits database: a global database on morphological traits of amphibians. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32, 633-641. Used under CC BY 4.0.