Yellow-Striped Pygmy Eleuth

Taxobox
name = Yellow-Striped Pygmy Eleuth


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Amphibia
classis_authority = Linnaeus, 1758
subclassis = Lissamphibia
superordo = Salientia
ordo = Anura
ordo_authority = Merrem, 1820
superfamilia = Hyloidea
familia = Leptodactylidae
familia_authority = Werner, 1896
subfamilia = Eleutherodactylinae
subfamilia_authority = Lutz, 1954
genus = "Eleutherodactylus"
genus_authority = Duméril and Bibron, 1841
subgenus = "Euhyas"
species ="E. limbatus"
binomial = Eleutherodactylus limbatus
binomial_authority = Cope, 1862
status = VU
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = [IUCN2006
assessors=Hedges, B. & Díaz, L.
year=2004
id=56719
title=Eleutherodactylus limbatus
downloaded=06 May 2006] Measuring only 1/3 inch (11.7-11.8 mm), the Yellow-Striped Pygmy Eleuth ("Eleutherodactylus limbatus") is perhaps the fourth-smallest frog in the world.

Mating calls and Reproduction

E. limbatus has a very intense mating call, but it is brief (6.9 to 24.8 milliseconds) and high-pitched (6.5 to 8.3 kHz), at a rate of 278 per minute. Female frogs have a single ovary and lay one egg at a time which is subsequently buried in the ground, where it develops quickly. [http://www.eleuthare.com/limbatus.html Anfibios de Cuba ] ]

Habitation

The frogs require are found in Cuba at elevations up to 1,150m above sea level, in closed canopy mesic and xeric forests. Their distribution is highly fragmented as indicated on [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/rangemap.php?species=56719 this map] , with the total land-area equaling 7,700 miles² (20,000 km²). [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/56719/all 2007 IUCN Red List – Search ] ] Within this limited area, though, they are quite numerous. [ [http://www.natureserve.org/infonatura/servlet/InfoNatura?searchName=Eleutherodactylus+limbatus InfoNatura - Detailed Report ] ]

Coloration

The four subclassifications of E. limbatus are distinguishable by their varying colorations: orange in E. jaumei, brown clear in E. orientalis, brown-reddish in E. cubanus, and dark brown in E. iberia. All are brownish overall, with a black-colored ray pattern along the back and two intensely-yellow longitudal rays.

References

*http://www.globalamphibians.org/servlet/GAA?searchName=Eleutherodactylus+limbatus
*http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0045-8511(19961227)3:1996:4%3C852:ATLSLI%3E2.0.CO;2-E
*http://www.picsearch.com/info.cgi?q=%22Eleutherodactylus%20limbatus%22&id=muntYNdnS5FzF_IYhhwRWo9K6pdfkD-RKQeGjIB4TXQ
*http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=550347
*http://www.eleuthare.com/listae.html