Overview
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Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Gardiner's Seychelles Frog
Description
Habitat
Ecology:
It lives both on the ground
in forest
litter
and on low vegetation
in leaf axils
, in disturbed
and undisturbed rainforest. It also occurs
in areas dominated by introduced
trees
such as cinnamon. It breeds
by direct development
, the eggs
being laid on the ground.[1]
List of Habitats
:
1.6
Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
1.9
Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
14.6
Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded
Former Forest
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- 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
()
- Superorder:
Salientia
()
- Order:
Anura
()
- (Fischer von Waldheim, 1813) Gray, 1825
- Suborder:
Neobatrachia
()
- Reig, 1958
- Superfamily:
Bufonoidea
()
- Family:
Sooglossidae
()
- (Noble, 1931)
- Genus:
Sooglossus
()
- Boulenger, 1906
- Specific name:
gardineri
- (Boulenger, 1911)
- Scientific name: - Sooglossus gardineri (Boulenger, 1911)
- Specific name:
gardineri
- (Boulenger, 1911)
- Genus:
Sooglossus
(
- Family:
Sooglossidae
(
- Superfamily:
Bufonoidea
(
- Suborder:
Neobatrachia
(
- Order:
Anura
(
- Superorder:
Salientia
(
- 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 Sooglossus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species and subspecies in this genus:
S. gardineri (Gardiner's Seychelles Frog) · S. sechellensis (Seychelles Frog)
More Info
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Further Reading
- 1994 IUCN red list of threatened animals Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 1993 url p. 90.
- Oil spill sensitivity of the western Indian Ocean islands: coastal data from the Comoros Islands, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion and the Seychelles WCMC url p. 101.
- World Checklist of Threatened Amphibians and Reptiles Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 9, p. 8.
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.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 08, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- Nussbaum, R. & Gerlach, J. 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- Nussbaum, R. and Gerlach, J. 2004. Sooglossus gardineri. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 08, 2008:
- Yale University Peabody Museum: Peabody Herp Collection DiGIR provider Service
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 30805
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-665697
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 665697
- IUCN ID: 20380
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 11155
Footnotes
- Nussbaum, R. & Gerlach, J. 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008. [back]
