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Interesting Facts
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Description
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Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial [1].
Ecology:
This is a diurnal
species that lives in the leaf-litter of primary
and secondary forest
, and has also been found in bamboo
and banana
plantations, as well as forest fragments (but not open habitats
).
It is a direct developer, and the eggs
are probably laid on the ground
.
[1].
List of Habitats:
- 1 Forest
- 1.5 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
- 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
- 14 Artificial/Terrestrial
- 14.3 Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations [more info]
Taxonomy
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- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Order:
Anura
()
- Family:
Eleutherodactylidae
()
- Subfamily:
Phyzelaphryninae
()
- Genus:
Adelophryne
()
- Hoogmoed & Lescure, 1984
- Specific name:
maranguapensis
- Hoogmoed, Borges & Cascon, 1994
- Scientific name: - Adelophryne maranguapensis Hoogmoed, Borges & Cascon, 1994 Hoogmoed, Borges & Cascon, 1994
- Specific name:
maranguapensis
- Hoogmoed, Borges & Cascon, 1994
- Genus:
Adelophryne
(
- Subfamily:
Phyzelaphryninae
(
- Family:
Eleutherodactylidae
(
- Order:
Anura
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 01-Sep-2009
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Adelophryne
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. gutturosa (Guiana Shield Frog)
More Info
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Further Reading
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- Amphibian Data. For additional documentation about utilization and CITES status, click on the Global Amphibian Assessment (GAA) link above to see the GAA account for this species or alternatively follow this link to the search function on the Global Amphibian Assessment web site and run your own search.
- Borges-Nojosa, D.M. and Lima, D.C. 2001. Dieta de Drymoluber dichrous (Peters, 1863) dos brejos-de-altitude do Estado do Ceara, Brasil (Serpentes, Colubridae). Boletim do Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro Zoologia: 1-5.
- Eterovick, P.C., Carnaval, A.C.O.Q., Borges-Nojosa, D.M., Silvano, D.L., Segalla, M.V. and Sazima, I. 2005. Amphibian declines in Brazil: an overview. Biotropica: 166-179.
- Hoogmoed, M.S., Borges, D.M. and Cascon, P. 1994. Three new species of the genus Adelophryne (Amphibia: Anura: Leptodactylidae) from northeastern Brazil, with remarks on the other species of the genus. Zoologischer Mededelinger Leiden: 271-300.
- IUCN. 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 23 November 2004.
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- Débora Silvano, Diva Borges-Najosa 2004. Adelophryne maranguapensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 29January2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- Silvano, D. & Borges-Najosa, D. 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 28052
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-663342
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 663342
- IUCN ID: 188887
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 149657
Footnotes
- Débora Silvano, Diva Borges-Najosa 2004. Adelophryne maranguapensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 29 January 2012. [back]
