Bokermannohyla saxicola

Bokermannohyla saxicola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Bokermannohyla
Species:
B. saxicola
Binomial name
Bokermannohyla saxicola
(Bokermann, 1964)
Synonyms[3]
  • Hyla saxicola (Bokermann, 1964)
  • Hyla pseudopseudis saxicola (Lutz, 1973)
  • Hyla saxicola (Pombal and Caramaschi, 1995)
  • Bokermannohyla saxicola (Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005)

The ledge tree frog (Bokermannohyla saxicola) is a frog that lives in Brazil. It lives in the Serra do Espinhaço and Serra de Cipó mountains,[3][1][2] usually more than 800 meters above sea level.[4]

This frog is 5.0 to 5.4 cm long from nose to rear end.[4]

These frogs live in montane meadows, grassy places partway up mountains. It lays eggs in rocky streams. This frog only lives below 800 meters above sea level when the streams stay rocky that low. Scientists have seen it as close to sea level as 600 meters, always by rocky streams. The tadpoles take about five months to grow.[4]

There are four different groups of ledge tree frogs, each living around the top of a different mountain.[4]

Scientists looked at the frog's DNA. They saw it became its own species 6.1 million years ago, during the c. 6.1 million years ago Miocene era.[4]

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Bokermannohyla saxicola". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved February 10, 2022.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Paula Cabral Eterovick; Luciana Barreto Nascimento; Débora Silvano (2004). "Bokermannohyla saxicola". 3.1. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T55648A11347752. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T55648A11347752.en. 55648. Retrieved February 10, 2022. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Bokermannohyla saxicola (Bokermann, 1964)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved February 10, 2022.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Augusto César Nascimento; Anderson Vieira Chaves; Felipe Sá Fortes Leite; Paula Cabral Eterovick; Fabrício Rodrigues dos Santos (November 5, 2018). "Past vicariance promoting deep genetic divergence in an endemic frog species of the Espinhaço Range in Brazil: The historical biogeography of Bokermannohyla saxicola (Hylidae)". PLOS ONE. 13 (11): e0206732. Bibcode:2018PLoSO..1306732N. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0206732. PMC 6218059. PMID 30395633.