Crinia remota

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Ecology: In Australia this species occurs in diverse habitats including flooded grassland or at the edge of swamps and billabongs . In New Guinea it inhabits low-lying grassy areas in mixed tropical savannahs. It breeds in temporary pools and ditches. It is not known how adaptable it is to secondary habitats.[1].

List of Habitats:

•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.2     Savanna - Moist   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.5     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     4.6     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded   
  
•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.4     Wetlands (inland) - Bogs , Marshes, Swamps, Fens , Peatlands   
  
•     5.5     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent 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)   
  
•     13     Marine Coastal/Supratidal   
  
•     13.5     Marine Coastal/Supratidal - Coastal Freshwater Lakes   
  
•     15     Artificial/Aquatic & Marine   
  
•     15.9     Artificial/Aquatic - Canals and Drainage Channels , Ditches   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 01-Sep-2009

Similar Species

Members of the genus Crinia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 15 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. bilingua (Bilingual Frog) · C. deserticola (Desert Froglet) · C. georgiana (Australian Frog) · C. glauerti (Glauert's Froglet) · C. insignifera (Sign-Bearing Froglet) · C. nimbus (Moss Froglet) · C. parinsignifera (Beeping Froglet) · C. pseudinsignifera (False Western Froglet) · C. remota (Remote Froglet) · C. riparia (Streambank Froglet) · C. signifera (Brown Froglet) · C. sloanei (Sloane's Froglet) · C. subinsignifera (Small Western Froglet) · C. tasmaniensis (Tasmanian Froglet) · C. tinnula (Tinkling Froglet)

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Further Reading

• 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.
• Barker J, GC Grigg and MJ Tyler (1995) A Field Guide to Australian Frogs. Surrey Beatty & Sons, New South Wales.
• Barker, J., Grigg, G. and Tyler, M. 1995. A Field Guide to Australian Frogs. Surrey Beatty and Sons Pty Ltd, New South Wales.
• IUCN. 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 23 November 2004.
• Tyler, M.J. and Parker, F. 1974. New species of hylid and Leptodactylid frogs from southern New Guinea. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia: 71-77.

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 February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• Hero, J.-M., Richards, S., Parker, F., Horner, P., Clarke, J. & Meyer, E. 2004. Crinia remota. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Jean-Marc Hero, Stephen Richards, Fred Parker, Paul Horner, John Clarke, Ed Meyer 2004. Crinia remota. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• 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.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 29736
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-664669
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 4490920
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 664669
• IUCN ID: 202719
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 132383

Footnotes

1. Jean-Marc Hero, Stephen Richards, Fred Parker, Paul Horner, John Clarke, Ed Meyer 2004. Crinia remota. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]

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