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Taruga (frog)
''Taruga'' is a genus of frogs endemic to Sri Lanka. They are the only foam-nesting tree frogs in the Old World Tree frog family, Rhacophoridae. Genus ''Taruga'' was previously assigned to the genus ''Polypedates''. As presently understood, ''Taruga'' comprises three named species: ''T. fastigo'', ''T. eques'' and ''T. longinasus''. Hence two genera of foam-nesting rhacophorid tree frogs are present in Sri Lanka: (1) ''Polypedates'', with many species in India and Asia but just two in Sri Lanka (''P. maculatus''— widely distributed in South Asia; and ''P. cruciger''— endemic to Sri Lanka, albeit widely distributed); and (2) ''Taruga'', the Sri Lankan endemic forms, whose three constituent species (''T. eques'', ''T. fastigo'' and ''T. longinasus'') each have restricted distributions mostly in the forested highlands. The best character to distinguish the adults of ''Taruga'' from Polypedates are a set of prominent cone-like projections around the vent. Furthermore, the supraty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taruga Longinasus
''Taruga longinasus'' (common names: southern whipping frog, long-snouted tree-frog) is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka. It has been observed between 150 and 1300 m above sea level. Appearance The adult male frog measures about 41-47 mm in snout-vent length and the adult female frog 57-60 mm. The skin of the dorsum is dark brown or red-brown in color with a red stripe from the nose to the middle of each flank. The frog's lips are white or yellow. Its legs are brown with marks. Life cycle These frogs are arboreal and live high in the trees. They can jump very well. When it is time to lay eggs, the adult frogs climb down to pools of water near streams. They female frog lays 28 to 42 eggs per clutch. The tadpoles grow into frogs in ten weeks. Habitat and threats The IUCN classifies this frog as endangered due to habitat loss. The frog is threatened by firewood collection and conversion of forest to both small- and large-scale farms, inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops including birth transformation or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation. Some insects, jellyfish, fish, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, cnidarians, echinoderms, and tunicates undergo metamorphosis, which is often accompanied by a change of nutrition source or behavior. Animals can be divided into species that undergo complete metamorphosis (" holometaboly"), incomplete metamorphosis (" hemimetaboly"), or no metamorphosis (" ametaboly"). Generally organisms with a larval stage undergo metamorphosis, and during metamorphosis the organism loses larval characteristics. Etymology The word ''metamorphosis'' derives from Ancient Greek , "transformation, transforming", from ('), "after" and ('), "form". Hormonal control In insects, growth and metamorphosis are controlled by hormones synthesized by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taruga (frog)
''Taruga'' is a genus of frogs endemic to Sri Lanka. They are the only foam-nesting tree frogs in the Old World Tree frog family, Rhacophoridae. Genus ''Taruga'' was previously assigned to the genus ''Polypedates''. As presently understood, ''Taruga'' comprises three named species: ''T. fastigo'', ''T. eques'' and ''T. longinasus''. Hence two genera of foam-nesting rhacophorid tree frogs are present in Sri Lanka: (1) ''Polypedates'', with many species in India and Asia but just two in Sri Lanka (''P. maculatus''— widely distributed in South Asia; and ''P. cruciger''— endemic to Sri Lanka, albeit widely distributed); and (2) ''Taruga'', the Sri Lankan endemic forms, whose three constituent species (''T. eques'', ''T. fastigo'' and ''T. longinasus'') each have restricted distributions mostly in the forested highlands. The best character to distinguish the adults of ''Taruga'' from Polypedates are a set of prominent cone-like projections around the vent. Furthermore, the supraty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taruga Fastigo
''Taruga fastigo'' is a species of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka and only known from its type locality, Morningside Estate near Rakwana. Prior to its description in 2001, it was confused with ''Polypedates eques'' (now '' Taruga eques''). Etymology The specific name ''fastigo'' is Latin for "sharpened" and refers to the pointed snout of the species. Description Adult males measure and females in snout–vent length. The snout is pointed. The canthus rostralis is angular, and the canthal ridges are sharp. The tympanum is visible and the supratympanic fold is distinct. The fingers and toes have well-developed discs; the fingers are free from webbing whereas the toes are webbed. Skin is mostly smooth but granular on the abdomen and underside of the femur. There are prominent white tubercles around the vent and lower surfaces of the thighs. Dorsal colouration is brown or olive green, and the dorsum bears an incomplete, dark-brown hourglass-shaped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taruga Eques
''Taruga eques'' (common names: Günther's whipping frog, Spurred Tree-frog, Montane Hour-glass Tree-frog) is a species of tree frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to the central hills of Sri Lanka. Taxonomy ''Taruga eques'' is a species of tree frog in the Rhacophoridae family, commonly known as shrub or flying frogs. The species was first described in 1858 by Albert Günther, who named the species Polypedates eques. In 1882, George Albert Boulenger described the species as ''Rhacophorus eques.'' Ernst Ahl upheld this classification in 1931 when he described the species as ''Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) eques.'' In 1957, Kirtisinghe reclassified the species as ''Rhacophorus cruciger eques,'' and in 1992, the species was renamed again to ''Polypedates eques'' by Kelum Manamendra-Arachchi and Sushil Kumar Dutta. In 2010, the '' Taruga'' genus was established by a team led by Madhava Meegaskumbura, resulting in the species being renamed to ''Taruga eques.'' This recla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard University
Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyman John Harvard (clergyman), John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Its influence, wealth, and rankings have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Harvard was founded and authorized by the Massachusetts General Court, the governing legislature of Colonial history of the United States, colonial-era Massachusetts Bay Colony. While never formally affiliated with any Religious denomination, denomination, Harvard trained Congregationalism in the United States, Congregational clergy until its curriculum and student body were gradually secularized in the 18th century. By the 19th century, Harvard emerged as the most prominent academic and cultural institution among the Boston B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbury, Vermont. It was chartered in Boston in 1869. The university is a member of the Association of American Universities and the Boston Consortium for Higher Education. The university has nearly 38,000 students and more than 4,000 faculty members and is one of Boston's largest employers. It offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, doctorates, and medical, dental, business, and law degrees through 17 schools and colleges on three urban campuses. The university is nonsectarian, though it retains its historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. The main campus is situated along the Charles River in Boston's Fenway–Kenmore and Allston, Massachusetts, Allston neighborhoods, while the Boston University Medical Campus is locate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Peradeniya
The University of Peradeniya (, ) is a Public research university, public university in Sri Lanka, funded by the University Grants Commission of Sri Lanka, University Grants Commission. It is the largest university in Sri Lanka, which was originally established as the University of Ceylon in 1942. The university was officially opened on 20 April 1954, in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II, by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. The University of Peradeniya hosts nine faculties, four postgraduate institutes (including the newly added Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences), 20 centres and units, 73 departments, and teaches about 12,000 students in the fields of Medicine, Agriculture, Arts, Science, Engineering, Dental Sciences, Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Management, and Allied Health Sciences. It claims to have the largest government endowment by a higher education institution in Sri Lanka, based on its large staff and faculties/departments. Location The Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since 2023; and, since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations averag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frogs
A frog is any member of a diverse and largely semiaquatic group of short-bodied, tailless amphibian vertebrates composing the order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek , literally 'without tail'). Frog species with rough skin texture due to wart-like parotoid glands tend to be called toads, but the distinction between frogs and toads is informal and purely cosmetic, not from taxonomy or evolutionary history. Frogs are widely distributed, ranging from the tropics to subarctic regions, but the greatest concentration of species diversity is in tropical rainforest and associated wetlands. They account for around 88% of extant amphibian species, and are one of the five most diverse vertebrate orders. The oldest fossil "proto-frog" ''Triadobatrachus'' is known from the Early Triassic of Madagascar (250million years ago), but molecular clock dating suggests their divergence from other amphibians may extend further back to the Permian, 265million years ago. Adult frogs have a st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinhala Language
Sinhala ( ; Sinhala: , , ), sometimes called Sinhalese ( ), is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka, who make up the largest ethnic group on the island, numbering about 16 million. It is also the first language of about 2 million other Sri Lankans, as of 2001. It is written in the Sinhalese script, a Brahmic script closely related to the Grantha script of South India. The language has two main varieties, written and spoken, and is a notable example of the linguistic phenomenon known as diglossia. Sinhala is one of the official and national languages of Sri Lanka. Along with Pali, it played a major role in the development of Theravada Buddhist literature. Early forms of the Sinhalese language are attested to as early as the 3rd century BCE. The language of these inscriptions, still retaining long vowels and aspirated consonants, is a Prakrit similar to Magadhi, a regional associate of the Middle-Indian Prakrits that had been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
