Tungara Frog

Tungara Frog

Taxobox
name = Tungara Frog


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Amphibia
ordo = Anura
familia = Leptodactylidae
genus = "Physalaemus"
species = "P. pustulosus"
binomial = "Physalaemus pustulosus"
binomial_authority = (Cope, 1864)
synonyms =

The Tungara Frog ("Physalaemus pustulosus") is a species of frog in the Leptodactylidae family. Its local Spanish name is "sapito de pustulas" ("pustulated toadlet").It is found in Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, and possibly Guyana.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, pastureland, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, and canals and ditches.It is threatened by habitat loss.

ource

* Santos-Barrera, G., Solís, F., Ibáñez, R., Wilson, L.D., Savage, J., Lee, J., Chaves, G., Señaris, C., Acosta-Galvis, A. & Hardy, J. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/57272/all Physalaemus pustulosus] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 22 July 2007.


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