Narrow-cut lumberjack

Narrow-cut lumberjack
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animals
Type of:	Chordate
Grade:	Amphibians
Squad:	Tailless
Family:	Uzkoroty
Subfamily:	Volatile shortcuts
Gender:	Woody Shortcuts
View:	Narrow-cut lumberjack
Latin name
	Platypelis grandis Boulenger , 1889

Narrow-cut lumberjack ^[1] ( Platypelis grandis ) is a species of tailless amphibian from the Uzkoroty family, endemic to Madagascar .

Content

1 Appearance and structure
2 Distribution
3 Lifestyle
4 Reproduction
5 notes
6 Literature

Appearance and structure

The body length of males is up to 9 cm, females - up to 5 cm.

Distribution

Endemic to Madagascar.

Lifestyle

They live and breed on trees.

Reproduction

The mating season begins in September and October. A narrow-cut lumberjack begins to make loud screams, similar to an ax knocking on a tree. This happens in the afternoon and at night.

Offspring are bred in tree-filled hollows or large axils of the leaves. The eggs are large, contain enough nutrients to provide the larvae until they turn into frogs. Tadpoles do not feed until they turn into frogs. It takes about 5 weeks. The size of the frog is 8 mm. The males look after the offspring and guard it until the tadpoles pass the metamorphosis. If the male is disturbed, he swells and tries to bite the enemy, and his skin releases sticky white matter. In addition, the male disinfects the water - if you remove it from the offspring, after a few days it dies from mold .

Notes

↑ Ananyeva N. B. , Borkin L. Ya. , Darevsky I.S. , Orlov N.L. The five-language dictionary of animal names. Amphibians and reptiles. Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. Yaz., 1988 .-- S. 100. - 10,500 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00232-X .

Literature

Rose M. A. Blommers-Schlosser, Leo G. M. Blommers Amphibians // Madagascar: Per. from English / Resp. ed. ser. V. E. Sokolov . - M: Progress, 1990. - (Gold Fund of the Biosphere). - S. 132-133. - ISBN 5-01-002049-1

[1] Ananyeva N. B. , Borkin L. Ya. , Darevsky I.S. , Orlov N.L. The five-language dictionary of animal names. Amphibians and reptiles. Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. Yaz., 1988 .-- S. 100. - 10,500 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00232-X .