Platymantis negrosensis
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The Negros forest frog (''Platymantis negrosensis'') is a species of frog in the family
Ceratobatrachidae The Ceratobatrachidae are a family of frogs found in the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, the Philippines, Palau, Fiji, New Guinea, and the Admiralty, Bismarck, and Solomon Islands. Taxonomy Ceratobatrachidae was formerly treated as a subfamily (i.e ...
. It is endemic to
Panay Panay is the sixth-largest and fourth-most populous island in the Philippines, with a total land area of and has a total population of 4,542,926 as of 2020 census. Panay comprises 4.4 percent of the entire population of the country. The City o ...
and
Negros Negros is the fourth largest and third most populous island in the Philippines, with a total land area of . Negros is one of the many islands of the Visayas, in the central part of the country. The predominant inhabitants of the island region a ...
, Philippines. Its natural habitats are
subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Description TSMF is generally found in large, discont ...
and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.


References

Amphibians of the Philippines Platymantis Endemic fauna of the Philippines Fauna of Negros Island Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Amphibians described in 1997 {{Ceratobatrachidae-stub