Overview
Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Inland Tailed Frog, Mountain Tailed Frog, Rocky Mountain Tailed Frog
Description
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial ; Freshwater [1].
Ecology:
It lives in clear, cold swift-moving mountain streams
with coarse
substrate. It may occur primarily in older forest
sites, but better
information is needed; required microclimatic and microhabitat
conditions
are more common in older forests. It may be found on land
during
wet weather near water in humid forests or in more open habitat
.
During dry weather it stays
on moist stream-banks. It lays
eggs
in
long strings under stones
in water.[1].
List of Habitats:
- 1 Forest
- 1.4 Forest - Temperate
- 5 Wetlands (inland)
- 5.1 Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls ) [more info]
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
()
- Order:
Anura
()
- (Fischer von Waldheim, 1813) Gray, 1825
- Suborder:
Archeobatrachia
()
- Superfamily:
Discoglossoidea
()
- Günther, 1858
- Family:
Leiopelmatidae
()
- Mivart, 1869
- Genus:
Ascaphus
()
- Stejneger, 1899
- Specific name:
montanus
- Scientific name: - Ascaphus montanus Mittleman and Myers, 1949
- Specific name:
montanus
- Genus:
Ascaphus
(
- Family:
Leiopelmatidae
(
- Superfamily:
Discoglossoidea
(
- Suborder:
Archeobatrachia
(
- 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
.
Last scrutiny: 01-Sep-2009
Similar Species
Members of the genus Ascaphus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. montanus (Rocky Mountain Tailed Frog) · A. truei (American Bell Toad) · A. truei truei (American Bell Toad)
More Info
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Further Reading
- Draft programmatic environmental assessment for candidate conservation agreement with assurances and associated permit for fluvial Arctic grayling in the upper Big Hole River, Montana. Helena, Mont.: Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, 2005 url .
- Inventory of plants, plant communities and herpetofauna of concern in the vicinity of the Snow-Talon burn, Helena National Forest / Helena, Mont.: Montana Natural Heritage Program, c2005. url , , , .
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
- Geoffrey Hammerson, Michael Adams 2004. Ascaphus montanus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 26209
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-661593
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 661593
- IUCN ID: 192897
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AAABA01020
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1633
Footnotes
- Geoffrey Hammerson, Michael Adams 2004. Ascaphus montanus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]
