Overview
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Critically Endangered |
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Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Island Forest Frog
Description
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial
Ecology:
It inhabits limestone karst forest
and caves in forested lowlands.
It breeds
by direct development
.
List of Habitats
:
1.5
Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
1.6
Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
1.9
Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
6
Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs
, mountain peaks)
7.1
Caves and Subterranean
Habitats (non-aquatic) - Caves
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Amphibia
()
- Gray, 1825
- Subclass:
Lissamphibia
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Infraclass:
Lissamphibia
()
- Order:
Anura
()
- (Fischer von Waldheim, 1813) Gray, 1825
- Suborder:
Neobatrachia
()
- Reig, 1958
- Family:
Ceratobatrachidae
()
- Boulenger, 1884
- Genus:
Platymantis
()
- Günther, 1858
- Specific name:
insulata
- Brown and Alcala, 1970
- Scientific name: - Platymantis insulata Brown and Alcala, 1970
- Specific name:
insulata
- Brown and Alcala, 1970
- Genus:
Platymantis
(
- Family:
Ceratobatrachidae
(
- Suborder:
Neobatrachia
(
- Order:
Anura
(
- Infraclass:
Lissamphibia
(
- Subclass:
Lissamphibia
(
- Class:
Amphibia
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 03-Feb-2005
Similar Species
Members of the genus Platymantis
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 21 species and subspecies in this genus:
P. banahao (Banahao Forest Frog) · P. cornuta (Horned Forest Frog) · P. dorsalis (Dumeril's Wrinkled Ground Frog) · P. hazelae (Hazel's Wrinkled Ground Frog) · P. insulata (Island Forest Frog) · P. isarog (Isarog Forest Frog) · P. levigata (Smooth-Skinned Forest Frog) · P. magnus (Kavieng Wrinkled Ground Frog) · P. naomiae (Naomi's Forest Frog) · P. negrosensis (Negros Forest Frog) · P. panayensis (Panay Forest Frog) · P. papuensis (Papua Wrinkled Ground Frog) · P. pelewensis (Palau Wrinkled Ground Frog) · P. polillensis (Polillo Forest Frog) · P. pygmaea (Pygmy Forest Frog) · P. rabori (Rabor's Forest Frog) · P. spelaea (Negros Cave Frog) · P. vitiana (Fiji Ground Frog) · P. vitianus (Fiji Ground Frog) · P. vitiensis (Fiji Tree Frog) · P. weberi (Weber's Wrinkled Ground Frog)
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Further Reading
- Alcala, A.C. and Brown, W.C. 1985. Philippine Amphibians: An Illustrated Field Guide. Bookmark Press, Makati City, Philippines.
- Alcala, A.C. and Brown, W.C. 1999. Philippine frogs of the genus Platymantis (Amphibia: Ranidae). Philippine Journal of Science 128: 281-287.
- 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.
- Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- Brown, W.C. and Alcala, A.C. 1970. A new species of the genus Platymantis (Ranidae) with a list of the amphibians known from South Gigante Island, Philippines. Occ. Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 84: 1-7.
- Frost, D.R. (ed.) 1985. Amphibian Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Allen Press and the Association of Systematic Collections, Lawrence, Kansas.
- Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler). 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- Inger, R.F. 1999. Distributions of amphibians in southern Asia and adjacent islands. In: W.E. Duellman (ed.), Patterns of Distribution of Amphibians: A Global Perspective, pp. 445-482. John Hopkins University Press.
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 10, 2012.
- Diesmos, A., Alcala, A., Brown, R., Afuang, L., Dolino, C., Gee, G., Hampson, K., Diesmos, M.L., Mallari, A., Ong, P., Paguntalan, L., Pedregosa, M., Ubaldo, D. and Gutierrez, B. 2004. Platymantis insulata. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 4805357
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-665166
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 665166
- IUCN ID: 17519
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 9320
