Odorrana amamiensis (lat.) Is a species of amphibians from the family of real frogs . Endemic of East Asia: Japan (an endangered species, found only on the Ryukyu Islands : Amamioshima and Tokunoshima). Found in shallow ponds, in evergreen deciduous and mountain rainforests. The body length of males is from 57 to 69 mm, in females from 76 to 101 mm. The breeding features of O.amamiensis are similar to the species Odorrana narina . Some populations of O.amamiensis can breed in October, while others in May. Females lay up to 1,500 eggs per clutch. The eggs are yellowish white. Tadpoles of O.amamiensis from Tokunoshima Island have a more slender shape and are less pigmented than the tadpoles of frogs Odorrana supranarina . The species O. amamiensis was first described in 1994 by the Japanese zoologist Masafumi Matsui ( Masafumi Matsui ; Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University , Sakyo, Kyoto , Japan ) under the original name Rana amamiensis Matsui, 1994 [1] [2] [ 3] [4] [5] .
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International Red Book IUCN 3.1 Endangered : 58541 |
Guard Status
Causes of extinction: road construction, logging, fragmentation of natural forests in the habitat of the species, water pollution by pesticides, invasive species of predators ( mongoose ) [2]
Notes
- ↑ Matsui, Masafumi. 1994. A taxonomic study of the Rana narina complex, with description of three new species (Amphibia: Ranidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 111 (4): 385-415.
- ↑ 1 2 Kaneko, Y. & Matsui, M. 2004. Odorrana amamiensis . www.iucnredlist.org April 26, 2014
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. Odorrana amamiensis (Matsui, 1994) . Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference . American Museum of Natural History (2013). Date of treatment April 26, 2014.
- ↑ Odorrana amamiensis. AmphibiaWeb's database
- ↑ Frost, DR, T. Grant, J. Faivovich, RH Bain, A. Haas, CFB Haddad, RO de Sá, A. Channing, M. Wilkinson, SC Donnellan, CJ Raxworthy, JA Campbell, BL Blotto, PE Moler, RC Drewes, RA Nussbaum, JD Lynch, and DM Green. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1-370.
Literature
- Dutta, SK 1997. Amphibians of India and Sri Lanka (Checklist and Bibliography). Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India: Odyssey Publishing House.
- Fei, L., C.-y. Ye, Y.-z. Huang, J.-p. Jiang, and F. Xie. 2005. An Illustrated Key to Chinese Amphibians. Chongqing: Sichuan Publishing House of Science and Technology.