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Scaphiophryne marmorata

(marbled rain frog)

Overview

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Vulnerable

Threat status

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

marbled rain frog

Description

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Habitat

Ecology: It is a species of rainforest and degraded secondary vegetation in the east, and deciduous dry forest in the west. It does not survive in very open areas. Breeding takes place by larval development in shallow, temporary pools .[1].

List of Habitats :

Taxonomy

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Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Boulenger, George A. Description of an apparently new species of lizard of the genus Sceloporus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1882: 761-62 [1883], 1882.

Last scrutiny: 01-Sep-2009

Scaphiophryne spinosa has been separated from S. marmorata by Vences at al. (2003) and western populations have recently been separated as S. menabensis (Glos, Glaw and Vences 2005). (Ref. 305312).

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Scaphiophryne

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species and subspecies in this genus:

S. calcarata (Mocquard's Rain Frog) · S. marmorata (Marbled Rain Frog)

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Further Reading

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Notes

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. Miguel Vences, Frank Glaw 2004. Scaphiophryne marmorata. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 February 2012. [back]
Last Revised: 7/15/2012