Biology:Mount Tucuche tree frog
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Short description: Species of amphibian
| Mount Tucuche tree frog | |
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| F. fitzgeraldi in Trinidad and Tobago | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hemiphractidae |
| Genus: | Flectonotus |
| Species: | F. fitzgeraldi
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| Binomial name | |
| Flectonotus fitzgeraldi (Parker, 1933)
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| Synonyms | |
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Gastrotheca fitzgeraldi Parker, 1934 | |
The Mount Tucuche tree frog (Flectonotus fitzgeraldi) is a species of tree frog in the family Hemiphractidae. It is found in Trinidad and Tobago and Paria Peninsula, Venezuela.[2] It is an arboreal species occurring in various microhabitats of humid montane forest: leaf bases of bromeliads and aroids, bushes. It is threatened by habitat loss.[1]
This species is named after Leslie Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald who worked on Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1930s.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Flectonotus fitzgeraldi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T55316A109535175. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T55316A109535175.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/55316/109535175. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. (2015). "Flectonotus fitzgeraldi (Parker, 1934)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Hemiphractidae/Flectonotus/Flectonotus-fitzgeraldi.
Wikidata ☰ Q225034 entry
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