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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.
Order: Cetacea (cetaceans) The order Cetacea includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater. Name. Binomial.
Order: Charadriiformes Family: Scolopacidae. Scolopacidae is a large diverse family of small to medium-sized shorebirds including the sandpipers, curlews, godwits, shanks, tattlers, woodcocks, snipes, dowitchers and phalaropes. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil.
Five genera are endemic to Sri Lanka - Aspidura, Balanophis, Cercaspis, Haplocercus, and Pseudotyphlops. [ 2] Out of them only five of the land snakes are considered potentially deadly and life threatening to humans. Among snakes, 54 are endemic to Sri Lanka. [ 3] The total increased to 107 with new descriptions of Dendrelaphis, Rhinophis ...
Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage(Sinhala: පින්නවල අලි අනාථාගාරය), is a captive breedingand conservation institute for wild Asian elephantslocated at Pinnawalavillage, 13 km (8.1 mi) northeast of Kegalletown in Sabaragamuwa Provinceof Sri Lanka. Pinnawala has the largest herd of captive elephants in the world.
Wilpattu National Park ( Sinhala: විල්පත්තු ජාතික වනෝද්යානය) is a national park in Sri Lanka. The unique feature of this park is the existence of "Willus" (natural lakes) – natural, sand-rimmed water basins or depressions that fill with rainwater. Located on the northwest coast lowland dry zone ...
Sri Lankan elephants are the largest subspecies reaching a shoulder height of between 2 and 3.5 m (6.6 and 11.5 ft), weigh between 2,000 and 5,500 kg (4,400 and 12,100 lb), and have 19 pairs of ribs. Their skin colour is darker than of indicus and of sumatranus with larger and more distinct patches of depigmentation on ears, face, trunk and ...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sanctuariesare a class of protected areasin Sri Lankaand are administered by the Department of Wildlife Conservation. Sanctuaries are governed by the Fauna and Flora Protection Ordinance (No. 2) of 1937and may be created, amended or abolished by ministerial order.[1] All wildlife in sanctuaries are ...