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Rhapidophyllum hystrix, the needle palm, is a palm native to coastal margins of the subtropical eastern Gulf and south Atlantic states of the United States. Populations can be found from coastal southeast South Carolina , southward to Florida and west across the coastal plain of Mississippi and southern Alabama .
Cruziohyla craspedopus is a high-canopy frog of primary tropical lowland rainforest at elevations of 50–600 m (160–1,970 ft) above sea level. It only descends to lower branches for breeding, which takes place in fallen trees holding small water pools. However, tadpoles have also been found in small pools on the ground.
Cruziohyla calcarifer, the splendid leaf frog or splendid treefrog, is a species of tree frog of the subfamily Phyllomedusinae described in 1902 by George Albert Boulenger. It has a distribution from Esmeraldas Province in northwestern Ecuador, through western Colombia and Panama to the most southerly part of Costa Rica.
Cruziohyla is a genus of frogs in the subfamily Phyllomedusinae. They occur from Honduras in Central America south to the Amazon Basin in South America. [2] This genus was erected in 2005 following a major revision of the Hylidae and fully reviewed in 2018. [2] Species in this genus were previously placed in the genera Agalychnis or ...
Phyllomedusinae is a subfamily of hylid tree frogs found in the Neotropics commonly called leaf frogs. Formerly, they were often considered as their own family, Phyllomedusidae . The subfamily is considered to be the sister group to the Australian treefrogs ( Pelodryadinae ), a subfamily of frogs known from Australia and New Guinea , despite ...
The red-eyed tree frog's husbandry, care, and breeding knowledge have been greatly improved upon in the 21st century. [42] [43] However, as with all frogs and toads, the species still faces challenges from chytrid fungus, logging, and residential development. Wild tadpoles have experienced die-offs due to ranavirus, and subpopulations in Costa ...
The adult male frog measures 50.2 mm (1.98 in) to 57.5 mm (2.26 in) in snout-vent length and the adult female frog 68.8 mm (2.71 in) to 81.2 mm (3.20 in). Male and female frogs show notable sexual dimorphism in the shapes of their snouts. [3] The skin of the dorsum is mostly green with reddish-brown on the flanks and whitish or orange spots.
Pseudophilautus is a genus of shrub frogs in the family Rhacophoridae endemic to the Western Ghats of southwestern India and to Sri Lanka where the majority of the species are found. [1] Many of them are already extinct (marked with † in the species list). [2] On the other, some species believed to be extinct have also been rediscovered. [3] [4]