Costa Rica brook frog
Costa Rica brook frog | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Hylidae |
Genus: | Duellmanohyla |
Species: | D. uranochroa
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Binomial name | |
Duellmanohyla uranochroa (Cope, 1875)
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The Costa Rica brook frog or red-eyed stream frog[2] (Duellmanohyla uranochroa) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in Costa Rica and Panama. Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and rivers.
As of 2013, This species is classified as vulnerable by the IUCN.[1] Declines and local extinctions have been reported for populations (referred to as Hyla uranochroa) within the Monteverde region of Costa Rica's Cordillera de Tilaran, synchronous with the decline of 24 (from a total of 53) other amphibian species during 1990.[3][4]
References[]
- ^ a b IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Duellmanohyla uranochroa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T55314A54345228. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T55314A54345228.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ Schoville, Sean University of California http://www.amphibiaweb.org/cgi-bin/amphib_query?where-genus=Duellmanohyla&where-species=uranochroa Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Pounds, J. A., and Crump, M. L. (1994). "Amphibian declines and climate disturbance: The case of the golden toad and the harlequin frog." Conservation Biology, 8(1), 72-85.
- ^ Pounds, J. A., Fogden, M. P. L., and Campbell, J. H. (1999). Biological response to climate change on a tropical mountain. Nature, 398(6728), 611-615.
Categories:
- IUCN Red List vulnerable species
- Duellmanohyla
- Endangered fauna of North America
- Amphibians of Costa Rica
- Amphibians of Panama
- Amphibians described in 1875
- Hylinae stubs