''Lankanectes'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" '' Triadobatrachus'' is ...

s in the family

Nyctibatrachidae Nyctibatrachidae is a small family of frogs found in the Western Ghats of India and in Sri Lanka. Their common name is robust frogs. Recognition of Nyctibatrachidae as a family is fairly recent. These frogs were earlier on placed in the broadly ...

that is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found els ...

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. It is the only member of the

to be found outside

India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...

and the only member of the subfamily Lankanectinae. There are two known species in this genus: * ''

Lankanectes corrugatus ''Lankanectes corrugatus'' (common names: Sri Lanka wart frog, corrugated water frog) is a species of frog in the family Nyctibatrachidae. It was once monotypic within the genus ''Lankanectes'', until the second species - ''Lankanectes pera'' was ...

'' ( Peters, 1863) * '' Lankanectes pera'' (Senevirathne ''et al'', 2018)

References

Nyctibatrachidae Amphibian genera Endemic fauna of Sri Lanka Frogs of Sri Lanka {{ranoidea-stub