Biology:Luzon narrow-mouthed frog

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Short description: Species of frog

Luzon narrow-mouthed frog
Luzon Narrow-Mouthed Frogs ((Kaloula rigida) in amplexus.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Microhylidae
Genus: Kaloula
Species:
K. rigida
Binomial name
Kaloula rigida
Taylor, 1922

The Luzon narrow-mouthed frog (Kaloula rigida) is a species of frogs in the family Microhylidae.

It is endemic to the Central Cordilleras and Sierra Madres of northern Luzon, Philippines .

The Baguio variety is divergent from the rest of the population found in the forested mountains of northern Luzon.[2]

Habitat

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, arable land, rural gardens, urban areas, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land. It is threatened by habitat loss.

A Luzon narrow-mouthed frog in the Philippines

References

  1. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Kaloula rigida". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T57856A176530459. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T57856A176530459.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/57856/176530459. Retrieved 17 November 2021. 
  2. Blackburn, D. C., Siler, C. D., Diesmos, A. C., McGuire, J. A., Cannatella, D. C. and Brown, R. M. (2013), An adaptive radiation of frogs in a southeast Asian island archipelago. Evolution, 67: 2631–2646.

Wikidata ☰ Q2242174 entry