Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Masarene grassland frog, broad-banded ridged frog, Masarene ridged frog, Mascarene grass frog, Mascarene Grassland Frog, Mascarene Ridged Frog
Description
Habitat
Typically found in a lake at a mean distance from sea level of 1,000 meters (3,282 feet).[1]
Ecology:
In Africa it lives in agricultural areas, rice fields
, secondary
vegetation with tall herbaceous vegetation and marshy
areas, and
is often found near large lakes
, rivers
and other wetland habitats
(including irrigation
canals). It does not normally live in forest
(although it has been recorded in a gallery forest of the Sahel savanna
;
Padial and De la Riva 2004), but spreads
rapidly along roads in forested
areas. It breeds
in puddles, ditches and ruts
, and in West Africa
it is found mainly in rice fields and savanna. In Madagascar and
the Seychelles, it lives in extremely varied habitats, including
rainforest (marginally), dry forest, fields, savannas, grassland,
and urban areas. It breeds in all still and slow-flowing water types
.
[2].
List of Habitats:
- 1 Forest
- 1.5 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
- 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
- 1.8 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Swamp
- 1.9 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
- 2 Savanna
- 2.1 Savanna - Dry
- 2.2 Savanna - Moist
- 3 Shrubland
- 3.5 Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
- 3.6 Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist
- 3.8 Shrubland - Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation
- 4 Grassland
- 4.5 Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
- 4.6 Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded
- 4.7 Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude
- 5 Wetlands (inland)
- 5.1 Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls )
- 5.2 Wetlands (inland) - Seasonal/Intermittent/Irregular Rivers/Streams/Creeks
- 5.3 Wetlands (inland) - Shrub Dominated Wetlands
- 5.4 Wetlands (inland) - Bogs , Marshes, Swamps, Fens , Peatlands
- 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
- 14.2 Artificial/Terrestrial - Pastureland
- 14.3 Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations
- 14.4 Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens
- 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
- 15.9 Artificial/Aquatic - Canals and Drainage Channels , Ditches [more info]
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
- Subclass:
Lissamphibia
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Infraclass:
Lissamphibia
()
- Order:
Anura
()
- (Fischer von Waldheim, 1813) Gray, 1825
- Suborder:
Neobatrachia
()
- Reig, 1958
- Family:
Ptychadenidae
()
- (Dubois, 1986[1987])
- Subfamily:
Ptychadeninae
()
- Genus:
Ptychadena
()
- Boulenger, 1917
- Specific name:
mascareniensis
- Scientific name: - Ptychadena mascareniensis (Dum?ril & Bibron, 1841)
- Specific name:
mascareniensis
- Genus:
Ptychadena
(
- Subfamily:
Ptychadeninae
(
- Family:
Ptychadenidae
(
- Suborder:
Neobatrachia
(
- Order:
Anura
(
- Infraclass:
Lissamphibia
(
- Subclass:
Lissamphibia
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Rana mascareniensis
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 01-Sep-2009
This very widely distributed species is a complex
of several species.
A recent phylogeographic study by Vences et al.
(2004) suggests
that the populations of this species on the Seychelles and the Mascarene
islands were introduced
from Madagascar. However, the animals on
Madagascar appear to arrived on that island prior to its colonisation
by humans. Pickersgill (2007) treated Ptychadena hylaea
as a separate species, but here we retain it within P. mascareniensis
pending a more comprehensive resolution
of this species complex.
[2].
Similar Species
Members of the genus Ptychadena
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 19 species and subspecies in this genus:
P. aequiplicata (Victoria Grassland Frog) · P. anchietae (Anchieta's Ridged Frog) · P. ansorgii (Ansorge's Ridged Frog) · P. bibroni (Broad-Banded Grass Frog) · P. broadleyi (Broadleys Ridged Frog) · P. bunoderma (Rough Ridged Frog) · P. cooperi (Cooper's Grassland Frog) · P. longirostris (Snouted Grassland Frog) · P. mascareniensis (Masarene Grassland Frog) · P. mossambica (Mozambique Ridged Frog) · P. newtoni (Newton's Grassland Frog) · P. oxyrhynchus (Kaffirland Grassland Frog) · P. porosissima (Ethiopia Grassland Frog) · P. pumilio (Medine Grassland Frog) · P. schillukorum (Schilluk Ridged Frog) · P. subpunctata (Spotted Ridged Frog) · P. taenioscelis (Lukula Grassland Frog) · P. tellinii (Central Grassland Frog) · P. trinodis (Dakar Grassland Frog)
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Further Reading
- A Floral and faunal inventory of the eastern slopes of the Réserve naturelle intégrale d'Andringitra, Madagascar: with reference to elevational variation / Steven M. Goodman, editor. 85 1996 [Chicago, Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, c1996. url table 17-1 , table 17-3 , p. 163, p. 165, p. 168, p. 317.
- A floral and faunal inventory of the Parc national de Marojejy, Madagascar: with reference to elevational variation / Steven M. Goodman, editor. 97 2000 [Chicago, Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, c2000. url table 9-1 , table 9-3 , p. 160, p. 166, p. 285.
- Amphibian species of the world: Additions and corrections / by William E. Duellman. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1993. url p. 237, p. 360.
- Convergence and morphological constraint in frogs: variation in postcranial morphology; a contribution in celebration of the distinguished scholarship of Robert F. Inger on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday / Sharon B. Emerson. 43 1988 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1988. url p. 17.
- Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, url , p. 12, p. 3.
- Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 743, p. 746.
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 15, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 14, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- 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.
- Rödel, M.-O., Largen, M., Minter, L., Howell, K., Nussbaum, R. & Vences, M. 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- Rdel, M.-O., Largen, M., Minter, L., Howell, K., Nussbaum, R., Vences, M. & Baha El Din, S. 2008. Ptychadena mascareniensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 04February2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 09, 2008:
- California Academy of Sciences: CAS Herpetology Collection Catalog
- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Herpetology Collection - Amphibian Database
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
- Royal Museum for Central Africa: RMCA-HERP
- Yale University Peabody Museum: Peabody Herp Collection DiGIR provider Service
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 30309
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-665225
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 665225
- IUCN ID: 237955
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 139623
Footnotes
- Standard Deviation = 508.910 based on 66 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
- Rödel, M.-O., Largen, M., Minter, L., Howell, K., Nussbaum, R., Vences, M. & Baha El Din, S. 2008. Ptychadena mascareniensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 February 2012. [back]
