Hyla annectans

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

A largely arboreal frog of tropical evergreen and deciduous forest , that is also found in grasslands, and agricultural land close to forests. Breeding habitats are ponds and terraced paddy fields . It was observed as an explosive breeder in almost any water body , including rice paddy fields.

Ecology: A largely arboreal frog of tropical evergreen and deciduous forest , that is also found in grasslands, and agricultural land close to forests. Breeding habitats are ponds and terraced paddy fields . It was observed as an explosive breeder in almost any water body , including rice paddy fields.[1].

List of Habitats:

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.4     Shrubland - Temperate   
  
•     3.6     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.6     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded   
  
•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.5     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)   
  
•     5.6     Wetlands (inland) - Seasonal/Intermittent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)   
  
•     5.7     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Marshes/Pools (under 8ha)   
  
•     5.8     Wetlands (inland) - Seasonal/Intermittent Freshwater Marshes/Pools (under 8ha)   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.5     Artificial/Terrestrial - Urban Areas   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
  
•     15     Artificial/Aquatic & Marine   
  
•     15.1     Artificial/Aquatic - Water Storage Areas (over 8ha)   
  
•     15.2     Artificial/Aquatic - Ponds (below 8ha)   
  
•     15.3     Artificial/Aquatic - Aquaculture Ponds   
  
•     15.7     Artificial/Aquatic - Irrigated Land (includes irrigation channels )   
  
•     15.8     Artificial/Aquatic - Seasonally Flooded Agricultural Land   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Jerdon,T.C. Notes on Indian Herpetology. P. Asiatic Soc. Bengal March 1870: 66-85, 1870.

Last scrutiny: 01-Sep-2009

This species has several subspecies .[1].

Similar Species

Members of the genus Hyla

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 145 species and subspecies in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

H. albofrenata (White-Fronted Treefrog) · H. alboguttata (Whitebelly Treefrog) · H. albomarginata (White-Banded Tree Frog) · H. albopunctata (Spotted Treefrog) · H. albosignata (Lutz's Treefrog) · H. allenorum (Cuzco Reserve Treefrog) · H. anceps (Estrella Treefrog) · H. andersoni (Pine Barrens Treefrog) · H. andersonii (Pine Barrens Tree Frog) · H. annectans (Assam Treefrog) · H. aperomea (Balzapata Treefrog) · H. arborea (European Tree Frog) · H. arborea arborea (European Tree Frog) · H. arborescandens (Lesser Bromeliad Treefrog) · H. arenicolor (Canyon Treefrog) · H. arildae (Teresopolis Treefrog) · H. armata (Armed Treefrog) · H. astartea (Paranapiacaba Treefrog) · H. avivoca (Whistling Tree Frog) · H. avivoca avivoca (Bird-Voiced Treefrog) · H. balzani (Yungas Treefrog) · H. benitezi (Benitez's Treefrog) · H. berthalutzae (Bertha's Treefrog) · H. bifurca (Upper Amazon Treefrog) · H. biobeba (Brazilian Treefrog) · H. bipunctata (Two-Spotted Treefrog) · H. bischoffi (Bischoff's Treefrog) · H. bistincta (Mexican Fringe-Limbed Treefrog) · H. boans (Giant Gladiator Treefrog) · H. brevifrons (Crump Treefrog) · H. bromeliacia (Bromeliad Treefrog) · H. cadaverina (California Chorus Frog) · H. caingua (Striped Treefrog) · H. callipygia (Bocaina Treefrog) · H. carnifex (Executioner Treefrog) · H. cavicola (Cruz's Treefrog) · H. charazani (Charazani Treefrog) · H. chinensis (Chinese Tree Toad) · H. chrysocelis (Southern Gray Treefrog) · H. chrysoscelis (Southern Gray Treefrog) · H. cinerea (Green Tree Frog) · H. circumdata (Espirito Santo Treefrog) · H. colymba (La Loma Treefrog) · H. crepitans (Emerald-Eyed Treefrog) · H. dentei (Amapa Treefrog) · H. ebraccata (Hourglass Treefrog) · H. elegans (Elegant Forest Treefrog) · H. euphorbiacea (Southern Highland Treefrog) · H. eximia (Madrean Treefrog) · H. faber (Blacksmith Treefrog) · H. fasciata (Gunther's Banded Treefrog) · H. femoralis (Pine Woods Tree Frog) · H. geographica (Map Treefrog) · H. giesleri (Giesler's Treefrog) · H. godmani (Godman's Treefrog) · H. granosa (Demerara Falls Treefrog) · H. gratiosa (Barking Treefrog) · H. guentheri (Gunther's Brazilian Treefrog) · H. heilprini (Los Bracitos Treefrog) · H. hylax (Atlantic Forest Treefrog) · H. intermedia (Italian Tree Frog) · H. japonica (Japanese Tree Frog) · H. kanaima (Kanaima Treefrog) · H. koechlini (Koechlin's Treefrog) · H. labialis (Green Dotted Treefrog) · H. lancasteri (Lancaster's Treefrog) · H. lascinia (Tabor Treefrog) · H. leali (Leal's Treefrog) · H. lemai (Lema Treefrog) · H. leptolineata (Fine-Lined Treefrog) · H. leucophyllata (Bereis' Treefrog) · H. leucopygia (Guinle Treefrog) · H. lindae (Linda's Treefrog) · H. loquax (Loquacious Treefrog) · H. marginata (Mundo Novo Treefrog) · H. marianae (Spaldings Treefrog) · H. marmorata (Marbled Treefrog) · H. martinsi (Martin's Treefrog) · H. melanomma (Black-Eyed Treefrog) · H. meridionalis (Mediterranean Tree Frog) · H. microcephala (Yellow Cricket Treefrog) · H. microcephala microcephala (Yellow Cricket Treefrog) · H. microderma (Smallskin Treefrog) · H. miliaria (Cope's Brown Treefrog) · H. minuscula (Rivero's Tiny Treefrog) · H. minuta (Lesser Treefrog) · H. miotympanum (Small-Eared Treefrog) · H. mixe (Mixe Treefrog) · H. miyatai (Hosteria La Selva Treefrog) · H. multifasciata (Many-Banded Treefrog) · H. nana (Dwarf Treefrog) · H. ornatissima (Ornate Treefrog) · H. pacha (Morona-Santiago Treefrog) · H. palmeri (Palmer's Treefrog) · H. pardalis (Leopard Treefrog) · H. parviceps (Sarayacu Treefrog) · H. pelidna (Betania Treefrog) · H. pentheter (Mourning Treefrog) · H. perkinsi (Perkins' Treefrog) · H. phyllognatha (Roque Treefrog)

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Further Reading

• Amphibians of western China. [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1950. url page 227, fig. 53 , , page 231, fig. 54 , p. 13, p. 224, p. 225, p. 226, p. 228, p. 229, p. 398, p. 45, p. 47, p. 48, p. 53, p. 58.
• Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. 40 1911 Cambridge [Mass.]: The Museum, 1876-1940. url p. 127.
• Notes on a collection of birds from Michoacan, Mexico, by Emmet R. Blake and Harold C. Hanson. 22 1942 [Chicago]1942. url p. 562.
• Report on a collection of amphibians and reptiles from Sichuan, China / Robert F. Inger. .. [et al.] 58 1990 [Chicago]: Field Museum of Natural History, 1990. url table 1 , p. 9.
• Secondary sex characters of Chinese frogs and toads. 22 1936 Chicago, 1936. url p. 131.
• Some Chinese vertebrates. .. With six plates. Cambridge, U.S.A., Printed for the Museum, 1912. url p. 127.

Notes

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 9, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Peter Paul van Dijk, Annemarie Ohler, Yang Datong, Lu Shunqing, Sushil Dutta, Sabitry Bordoloi, Debjani Roy 2004. Hyla annectans. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
• 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.
• van Dijk, P.P., Ohler, A., Datong, Y., Shunqing, L., Dutta, S., Bordoloi, S & Roy, D. 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• California Academy of Sciences: CAS Herpetology Collection Catalog
• Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Science: Chinese Institude of Biology - Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Herpetology Collection - Amphibian Database
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Chinese Institude of Biology - Chinese Academy of Sciences

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 27133
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-662421
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 662421
• IUCN ID: 215015
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 143627

Footnotes

1. Peter Paul van Dijk, Annemarie Ohler, Yang Datong, Lu Shunqing, Sushil Dutta, Sabitry Bordoloi, Debjani Roy 2004. Hyla annectans. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 01 February 2012. [back]

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