Craugastor tabasarae

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Craugastor tabasarae
Systematics
Subordination : Neobatrachia
Superfamily : Brachycephaloidea
Family : Craugastoridae
Subfamily : Craugastorinae
Genre : Craugastor
Type : Craugastor tabasarae
Scientific name
Craugastor tabasarae
( Savage , Hollingsworth , Lips & Jaslow , 2004)

Craugastor tabasarae ( Syn. : Eleutherodactylus tabasarae ) is only in Panama -based frog , which is found in m premontane forests at altitudes from 600 to 910. It is threatened by the spread of the chytrid fungus as well as by habitat loss . The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) has classified the species as Critically Endangered (CR); at El Copé, Craugastor tabasarae may already have become extinct.

Features of the holotype and paratype

The body length of the adult males is 29–33.7 mm, that of the adult females 48.5–54.2 mm. The lively color of the upper side is cocoa brown, the grainy, structured back with many tubercles and / or short ridges shows medium-sized brown spots interspersed with yellow with red speckles and green areas. The inguinal region is golden yellow to orange with dark brown spots. The chin, chest and the grainy structure of the abdomen are creamy yellow, the ventral side of the limbs is bright yellow with brown spots. The fingers and toes have webbed feet, the discs of the toes are smaller than the discs of the fingers.

The tympanum, which is round in males and egg-shaped in females, is individually brightly colored. The top of the head is also grainy, the muzzle rounded towards the back and pointed in profile. The upper part of the iris is silver-brown, the lower half dark brown to black.

distribution and habitat

Craugastor tabasarae is in the tropical, premontane rainforest zones of the Serranía de Tabasará mountain range above El Cope in the province of Coclé in the Omar Torrijos National Park at altitudes of 600-800 m, in the mountains of the central east around the Cerro Bruja summit in the province of Colón in Heights of 730-800 m and in the Serranía Piedras-Pacora in the Chagres National Park in the province of Panamá at heights of 910 m.

Systematics and taxonomy

At the time of the first description of Craugastor tabasarae , the system of " southern frogs " (Leptodactylidae in the broader sense) was changing. The newly discovered frog was first placed in the genus Eleutherodactylus and thus in the family Eleutherodactylidae. Craugastor was then considered a sub-genus of the very species-rich genus Eleutherodactylus for the Central American species. In 2008 the Craugastoridae family was established.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Craugastor tabasarae in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011.2. Posted by: Roberto Ibanez, Karen Lips, 2006. Retrieved June 2, 2012.
  2. ^ A b Jay M. Savage, Bradford D. Hollingsworth, Karen R. Lips, Alan P. Jaslow: A New Species of Rainfrog (Genus Eleutherodactylus) from the Serrania De Tabasara, West-Central Panama and Reanalysis of the Fitzingeri Species Group. Herpetologica, 60, 4, pp. 519-529, 2004 ( Online ; PDF; 256 kB)
  3. ^ S. Blair Hedges, William E. Duellman, Matthew P. Heinicke: New World direct-developing frogs (Anura: Terrarana): molecular phylogeny, classification, biogeography, and conservation. Zootaxa 1737, pp. 1-182, 2008

literature

  • Jay M. Savage, Bradford D. Hollingsworth, Karen R. Lips, Alan P. Jaslow: A New Species of Rainfrog (Genus Eleutherodactylus) from the Serrania De Tabasara, West-Central Panama and Reanalysis of the Fitzingeri Species Group. Herpetologica, 60, 4, pp. 519-529, 2004 (first description, online ; PDF; 256 kB)
  • S. Blair Hedges, William E. Duellman, Matthew P. Heinicke: New World direct-developing frogs (Anura: Terrarana): Molecular phylogeny, classification, biogeography, and conservation. Zootaxa 1737, 2008, pages 1-182, 2008 ISBN 978-1-86977-197-3

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